2013–2014 Clinical Trials Epidemiology Global Health Policy ...

‘Studying clinical trials
really helped me in
my day to day work
and it also meant
that I had a much
broader and deeper
understanding of the
work that I was doing,
both theoretically
and practically.’
Jane Walker
P r o fi le : Jane Walker
MSc Clinical Trials, UK
‘I’m a doctor and I work for the
Psychological Medicine Research
Group at the University of Oxford.
I develop new ways of helping
people who have cancer and
who also have depression.
Studying clinical trials really
helped me in my day to day
work and it also meant that
I had a much broader and
deeper understanding of the
work that I was doing, both
theoretically and practically.
I had never studied anything
by distance learning before so I
was rather apprehensive about
that. But the course was really well
organised and the tutors were
very helpful and excited about
teaching. I felt that I could get the
knowledge that I needed and
apply that every day in the work
that I was doing with my patients
in the clinical trials I was running.
All the modules were really well
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organised and practical. The most
exciting thing was that many of
the tutors were world experts in
clinical trials and epidemiology,
so it was fantastic to be able
to discuss things either online
with them or in live chats.
I would absolutely recommend
this course. I thoroughly
enjoyed it and it’s by far the
best course I’ve ever done. It
was hard work but it was really
interesting, and I think anyone
who either develops treatments
or runs clinical trials should
de nitely think about doing it.’
Jane is a Senior Clinical
Researcher (University of Oxford
Department of Psychiatry) and a
Consultant Psychiatrist (Oxford
University Hospitals NHS Trust).
She is about to complete her PhD
at the University of Edinburgh.