The Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health
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Faculty of Medicine Dentistry and Health. Welcome from the Faculty Pro-Vice-Chancellor 3 About the University of Sheffield 4 Teaching in the Faculty of Medicine Dentistry and Health 6 Widening participation 8 Training the next generation: 10 Innovation 11 In partnership with the NHS 12 School of Clinical Dentistry 14 School of Health and Related Research 16 Department of Human Communication Sciences 20 The Medical School 22 MRC Centre for Developmental and Biomedical Genetics 23 Department of Cardiovascular Science 25 Department of Human Metabolism 26 Department of Infection and Immunity 29 Department of Neuroscience 32 Department of Oncology 34 School of Nursing and Midwifery 36 About Sheffield 39 “Together, we offer the potential to develop new interdisciplinary approaches to teaching and research in response to national and global health questions and needs.” Welcome to the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health It is my great pleasure to introduce you to the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health at the University of Sheffield. Formed in 2008, the Faculty brings together clinical and health-related subjects across a broad combination of disciplines and expertise. Together, our Faculty includes: • The School of Clinical Dentistry Our schools and departments encompass a broad • The School of Health and Related Research spectrum of expertise, enabling us to examine (ScHARR) problems in new ways and to tackle important • The Department of Human Communication societal questions from a strong position. By bringing Sciences our research experts and acclaimed educators • The Medical School together, we offer the potential to develop new • The Department of Cardiovascular Science interdisciplinary approaches to teaching and • The Department of Human Metabolism research in response to national and global health • The Department of Infection and Immunity questions and needs. The breadth of our expertise • The Department of Neuroscience also enables us to look holistically at health • The Department of Oncology conditions and find new answers to these problems. • The School of Nursing and Midwifery. We are intrinsically linked to the NHS and are We have developed an exciting environment of proud of our extensive collaborations with health learning, research and clinical activity to tackle some partners, providers and policy-makers regionally and of the major diseases and problems facing society nationally. We are committed to ever-stronger today. Our collaborations in teaching and research partnerships with organisations at the forefront of span the continents and staff and students travel far health research and policy to extend the reach of our around the world, applying and expanding their life-changing work. knowledge. We are committed to an ethos of excellence – in learning and in patient care – and we The Faculty’s work makes a positive impact on contribute comprehensively and wholeheartedly to people’s lives by addressing the biggest health the University’s guiding principles: achieving challenges facing our country, our health service and excellence; cultivating ambition; working together; our world today. I hope that you enjoy reading about protecting the future; making a difference and our work and that you will feel inspired to work with leading the way. us on these major challenges. Our mission is to be a health sciences faculty distinguished by excellence in: • learning, teaching and the student experience; • internationally leading research and its translation into practice; • regional and global impact on human health and patient care. Faculty Director of Operations, Mrs Susan Bridgeford MA Hons, MBA s.bridgeford@sheffield.ac.uk Faculty Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Professor Tony Weetman 3 About the University of Sheffield The University’s purpose has long been to improve We remain committed today to the goal of changing the world by seeking to better understand it. the world for the better through the power and Our motto – Rerum Cognoscere Causas – comes application of ideas and knowledge. The University from Virgil’s Georgics and means ‘to know the received its royal charter in 1905. Today it employs causes of things’. We now define the University’s over 5,000 staff and delivers programmes to more mission in more contemporary language as ‘to than 20,000 students from 130 different countries. discover and understand’. 4 “Sheffield is one of the UK’s leading universities. International, world-class research underpins teaching excellence delivering a student experience ranked top 5 in the UK.” Times Higher Education Supplement, 2010. With five faculties covering Arts and Humanities, In 2011 we were named University of the Year at the Social Sciences, Science, Engineering and Medicine, Time Higher Education Awards for our many Dentistry and Health, the University’s knowledge imaginative and innovative initiatives as well as our spans a vast array of disciplines, making it one exceptional performance in research, teaching, of the leading centres of research and education in access and business performance. The recent the UK today. National Student Survey placed us top 10 in the UK for student satisfaction and first for library facilities. We are a university that is focused on discovery and innovation in a world-class, supportive and friendly environment. In the 2008 National Research Assessment Exercise, 93 percent of the University’s research was regarded as internationally significant or world leading. 5 Learning and Teaching in Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Learning, teaching and the student Postgraduate study is available in four principal areas: clinical and professional; medical science; public experience health; and health economics, informatics and research. Delivering world-class graduates with the knowledge society needs is central to our collective mission of Clinical and Professional Programmes: excellence in learning and teaching. With first-class facilities and researchers who are leading the world, • Acute Care (Nursing) students in each of our programmes enjoy a dynamic • Advanced Nursing Studies and stimulating learning environment. • Advancing Practice (Nursing) • Cleft Palate Studies Students can be confident in developing the • Clinical Communication Studies* knowledge, skills and expertise which will make them • Clinical Neurology excellent health practitioners and citizens. The • Dental Implantology opportunity to study with staff at the cutting edge of • Dental Materials Science research and our close collaboration with the NHS • Dental Public Health provide students with outstanding clinical and • Diagnostic Oral Pathology practice-based learning opportunities. In addition, a • Emergency Medicine number of staff hold national and senate learning and • Health Care Studies teaching awards. Almost 2,000 undergraduate and • Integrated Academic Training Programme 800 postgraduate students study in the Faculty on • Language and Communication Impairment in over 50 different programmes. Children • Long Term Conditions (Nursing) All our students are encouraged to develop skills in: • Maternity Care the effective use of evidence; inter-professional • Medical Education collaboration and teamwork; adaptability to • Midwifery uncertainty; preparation for employment; personal • Neonatal Intensive Care responsibility; and continuing development of • Nursing Studies* professional knowledge and skills. Opportunities for • Orthodontics study abroad, student volunteering and student • Paediatric Dentistry societies ensure a rich learning experience. • Periodontology • Restorative Dentistry Our undergraduate degrees and diplomas • Speech and Cleft cover the following subjects: • Speech Difficulties • Vision and Strabismus • Dental Hygiene and Therapy* • Dental Surgery* Medical Science Programmes: • Health and Human Sciences • Health and Social Care Studies (Acute High • Human Nutrition Dependency and Critical Care) • Molecular Medicine (pathways in Cancer, • Health and Social Care Studies (Neonatal Intensive Cardiovascular Science, Genetics, Experimental Care) Medicine and Neurosciences) • Health and Social Care Studies (Ongoing and • Translational Neuroscience Supportive Care) • Health and Social Care Studies (Primary Care and Public Health Programmes: Public Health) • Dental Public Health • Health and Social Care Studies (Sexual Health) • European Public Health • Human Communication Sciences • Public Health • Language and Communication Impairment in • Public Health and International Development Children • Public Health, Management and Leadership • Medicine* • Public Health (Health Services Research) • Orthoptics* • Social Science and Oral Health • Speech Science.* • Social Science and Health *Leads to professional registration For further information see: www.sheffield.ac.uk/undergraduate/ 6 We have around 2,000 undergraduate students, and approximately 800 postgraduate students Health Economics, Informatics and Research Additionally, research programmes leading to PhD, Programmes: MPhil or MD are available across the Faculty. Around • Clinical Research 250 research students study with us each year. • Economics and Health Economics • Health Economics and Decision Modelling Scholarships, advice and a tailored skills • Health Informatics development programme are available through the • Health and Social Care Research Faculty Graduate School. • Human Communication Sciences For further information: • International Health Technology Assessment, www.sheffield.ac.uk/faculty/medicine-dentistry- Pricing and Reimbursement health/graduateschool/prospectivepg