Take the next step in your career with a PgDip in Clinical Microbiology from Queen Mary. On this course you will develop your own original scholarship and scientific research: preparing you to pursue further research or professional study.

• Part-time schedule allows you to balance work and study
• Get hands-on experience in our advanced purpose-built laboratories
• Acquire an understanding of specialised techniques applicable to your own research or advanced scholarship
• Option to join clinical journal club at Barts Health NHS Trust

Facilities

At Queen Mary you will have access to a number of advanced facilities, some of which are designated exclusively to postgraduate students. These include:

• the Blizard Building, which has state of-the-art facilities for students and staff including open-plan research laboratories, office space, a 400-seater lecture theatre and a café, and several seminar rooms
• a Learning Resources Centre, open around the clock, with 200 networked PCs solely for the use of postgraduate students
• medical libraries located at Barts and The Royal London hospitals and at the Queen Mary Mile End campus
• access to the Postgraduate Reading Room
• research access to the British Library.
• close links with other microbiology departments in the region.

Career paths

Graduation from this course allows you to apply your knowledge directly to the field. It sets you up to work in research-focused positions such as a chemistry consultant, a molecular microbiologist or a conservation officer.

For example, a graduate of this course have gone on to become the Head of the Microbiology Unit in the Pathology and Microbiology Department at the University Teaching Hospital, Zambia.