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PhD

4 years full-time;
7 years part-time

30 September 2024

Warwick Medical School

University of Warwick

Warwick Medical School offers PhDs on a wide range of health-related topics, including health sciences, medical sciences, clinical education, medicine and more. Studying at Warwick you will gain the confidence and skills to maximise your talents for your future career.

You will find yourself integrated into the Medical School’s exciting and often ground breaking research. You will have the opportunity to help improve patient outcomes, change care pathways and improve service organisations. Change lives, make a difference.

Course codes

• Medical Sciences: P-A34P
• Health Sciences: P-B91P
• Clinical education: P-B91F
• Medicine: P-A31P
• Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research: P-B92K
• Nursing: P-B718
• Healthcare: P-B717
• Health and Social Studies: P-L4PC

Teaching and Learning

You will register for an MPhil/PhD and then go through a formal upgrading process at nine months (15 months for part-time students). You will then be registered for a PhD. Final assessment will be by submission of a thesis followed by a viva examination.

• Health Sciences
• Medical Sciences
• Clinical Education
• Medicine
• Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research
• Nursing
• Healthcare
• Health and Social Studies

Full details of our research interests are listed on the Warwick Medical School website. Read more about our research strategy, research centres and research programmes.

You can also read our general University research proposal guidance.

Find your supervisor using the link below and discuss with them the area you'd like to research.

Explore our Warwick Medical School List of Approved Supervisors to where you will be able to search by research interests.

You should initially approach a suitable Academic Advisor (supervisor) from this list to discuss their work and to see if they would be willing to provide guidance on the presentation of the proposed Thesis for submission.

You can also see our general University guidance about finding a supervisor.

2:1 undergraduate degree or Merit in Master’s degree.

• Band A
• IELTS overall score of 6.5, minimum component scores not below 6.0.
• Band B
• Overall IELTS (Academic) score of 7.0 and minimum component scores of two at 6.0/6.5 and the rest at 7.0 or above.

(The above depending on the course title).

Two academic references