Clinical Academic Careers

Research active clinicians are the lifeblood of the AHSC and essential to the delivery of its mission. Attracting and developing staff across all partners is one of our strategic objectives. The AHSC aims to help scientists, healthcare professionals and other staff from a wide variety of disciplines, professions and backgrounds come together to excel in research and clinical care.

Through the Clinical Academic Training Office and externally awarded schemes, the AHSC already supports the research training of doctors and nurses, midwives, allied health professionals, pharmacists and psychologists (NMAHPPs) from the predoctoral to postdoctoral stage of their academic careers. In addition, the partners will develop additional initiatives to boost clinical academic numbers locally, amidst the national decline in numbers and funding opportunities 

The ambition is to ensure the AHSC continues to support those who are pursuing-clinical academic careers and to bolster the numbers of NHS clinicians who wish to engage and support research. This will ensure that the patient benefits of being treated and the organisational recruitment and retention benefits of working in a research active organisation are realised.

Professional development support

Attracting and developing staff across all partners of the AHSC is one of its strategic objectives. The AHSC aims to help scientists, healthcare professionals and other staff from a wide variety of disciplines, professions and backgrounds come together to excel in research and clinical care.

The AHSC provides a range of professional development opportunities for NHS staff.

It has compiled, through the Courses for NHS staff web resource, Imperial College London courses for NHS staff in areas such as digital health, quality improvement, research methods, statistics and healthcare leadership and development. These courses are rooted in the university’s research expertise and will equip NHS staff with the latest skills and techniques to bring further benefits to patients and populations. Either online, blended learning or short courses, these programmes are open to all NHS staff, from doctors, nurses and allied health professionals to managers, technical and support staff. The resource also provides links to more comprehensive listings of Imperial’s courses. 

The Royal Marsden School offers specialist short courses and post graduate opportunities championing change and improvement in cancer care through research and innovation, education, and leading-edge practice. Courses are firmly embedded within clinical practice and drawn upon clinical experts and researchers from across The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust.