Our online Clinical Education programme takes advantage of our world-renowned expertise to enhance your abilities to teach and assess students in a clinical environment.
This is an ideal programme for those with an educational role in relation to healthcare professionals and veterinary practitioners, including doctors, nurses, dental practitioners, clinical psychologists, occupational therapists, those involved with veterinary education or associated scientists (biomedical or social).
What will I learn?
Our aim is to help you reflect upon, and share thoughts about, your practice, while increasing your understanding of how to apply educational theories and evidence from the literature. As a result you will learn the knowledge and skills you need to deliver, develop and research high-quality clinical education in your own discipline.
This programme is affiliated with NHS Education for Scotland and the University's Global Health Academy.
Career opportunities
This programme has been designed to enhance your prospects as a teacher and instructor in human or animal health.
It promotes high quality clinical education by helping you reflect upon and share insights about your practice, to understand and apply educational theories and evidence from literature, and to help you develop a good solid foundation in clinical education and educational research upon which to build your academic career.
September 2025
University of Edinburgh
The University of Edinburgh,
Old College,
Edinburgh,
Edinburgh, City Of,
EH8 9YL, SCOTLAND, Scotland
*There may be different IELTS requirements depending on your chosen course.