MSc in Surgical Science and Practice

Recent faculty have included, but are not limited to: 

Rose Beauchamp.  A former Senior Expert in Communications at McKinsey & Company, Rose was twice nominated by colleagues at McKinsey as one of the organisation’s most inspirational UK leaders. Rose draws on over 15 years’ experience working with leaders across all sectors, from the board room to the front line. She has trained and coached banking strategy execs, car manufacturers, FTSE-100 CEOs and submarine commanders. She has worked extensively with leaders and managers in healthcare, including community nurses, GPs, clinical directors and board-level executives of Acute trusts. 

Dr Tony Berendt.  Tony graduated in Medicine from Cambridge and specialised in infectious diseases working in Cambridge, Oxford, Bath, London, Geneva and Sheffield. In 1997 he became the first Consultant in Charge of the Bone infection unit at Oxford and has authored over 60 peer reviewed articles and many other published reviews and book chapters. He was formerly Medical Director of the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre before becoming Medical Director at Oxford University Hospitals from 2014 to 2018. 

Dr Natalie Bohm.  Natalie completed a Law Degree and then a Masters in Law at Oxford University in 2000. She qualified as a doctor at St. George’s Hospital Medical School, and completed postgraduate training in Otolaryngology and a PhD in Health Services Research. She was appointed UK Medical Director of External Engagement at Pfizer in 2021.  

Professor Richard Canter.  Richard has been visiting Professor of Surgical Education in the Nuffield Department of Surgery since 2007, is an emeritus consultant at Oxford University Hospitals, Associate Fellow at Green Templeton College, and Hon Research Fellow in the Department of Education at the University of Oxford. After appointment as a consultant surgeon in Bath he completed a PhD in Management at the University of Bath. This led to appointments at the Royal College of Surgeons of England during which he completed reviews of surgical training in the UK for the Royal Colleges of Surgeons and in Kosovo for the European Agency for Reconstruction after the Balkan War.  

Richard Gleave.  Richard has held senior roles at hospital level including Chief Executive, before a series of appointments at the Department of Health. In 2013 he took up the appointment as Chief Operating Officer for Public Health England and then Deputy Chief Executive for Public Health England. Richard is currently Director of Scientific Strategy and Development, Chief Scientific Officer Group, UK Health Security Agency.  

Dr Oscar Lyons.  Oscar has an Oxford DPhil in healthcare leadership development from Oxford University and 18 years of teaching experience in science, healthcare and leadership. His teaching and research focus on real-world impact from leadership development. Oscar has designed, delivered and facilitated leadership development programmes for Oxford Master's degrees, certificates and colleges; UK NHS hospitals, summer schools, leadership development consultancies, and research centres. Oscar is currently Assistant Director of the Green Templeton College Health Systems Development Programme, Associate Editor and Theme Leader for Leadership Education for BMJ Leader, and Director of Thrum Leadership Ltd. 

Dr James Mountford.  James qualified in Medicine at Oxford and has a Master’s in Public Health from Harvard. From 2005 to 2007, he was a Commonwealth Fund/Health Foundation Harkness Fellow based at Massachusetts General Hospital, and at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), both in Boston, USA. He is the Editor-in-Chief of BMJ Leader and a Senior Associate Tutor at Oxford University.  

Professor Carol Peden MB ChB, MD (Res), FRCA, FFICM, MPH.  Carol is Executive Director for Clinical Quality for the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association (BCBSA) a federation which covers care for 109M, one in three, Americans.  Carol is also an Adjunct Professor of Anesthesiology at the University of Southern California and at the University of Pennsylvania in the USA, and a Visiting Professor at the University of Bath Center for Healthcare Innovation and Improvement. She has expertise in designing and leading improvement and innovation projects around the world and was named Public Health Innovator of the year in 2016 by Harvard School of Public Health for her work to improve outcomes in high-risk surgical patients.  

Mr Tom Revington. Tom read Biochemistry at Oxford University and carried out research into the T cell response to Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) at Oxford's Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine. Tom worked in the diplomatic service of the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office for a role encompassing policy development, conflict resolution and inter-governmental negotiations, including in  an overseas posting as deputy head of political office in Istanbul. Between 2004-2012 Tom worked at McKinsey & Company, mainly on improvement programmes at healthcare providers. In 2016 he began teaching on the Surgical Science and Practice courses at Oxford University. He is now the Course Director for the MSc in Surgical Science and Practice and the PGCert in Patient Safety and Quality Improvement and the Module Lead for the Quality Improvement Science and Systems Analysis module. 

Academic credit and short course participants 

Short course participants who submit a module assignment and achieve a pass, and who within two years go on to enrol in an award-bearing course (e.g. MSc, PGDip, PGCert) which includes the module, may request exemption from re-taking the module. 

Short course participants who do not wish to undertake the assessed work required for academic credit but who do satisfy the course attendance requirements will receive a certificate of attendance. 

Venue and accommodation 

The course is run at a central Oxford teaching venue.  

The course administrators are able to advise on accommodation for your stay in Oxford, including booking university-owned accommodation. 

Fees for 2025-2026 

*The fee rates listed are for the academic year shown, and you should be aware that these rates will increase annually, so students should expect the total to be higher than is shown in the Illustration. The exact amount will depend on the fee rates set annually, and upon the years you are in attendance; these are normally published well before the start of each academic year, but for your own budgetary purposes you may wish to estimate a 5% annual increase on fee rates