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Study with us

We offer opportunities for research training for clinical and non-clinical graduates. We are also responsible for delivering the surgical training to the University of Oxford Medical School undergraduates.

Undergraduate education

We are primarily responsible for the delivery and development of surgical training for 4th and 6th year medical students.

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Graduate Courses

NDS runs taught MSc courses in Integrated Immunology and contributes to the part-time MSc course in Surgical Sciences and Practice, which is run by the Department of Continuing Education.

We also offer opportunities for research training for both clinical and non-clinical postgraduates. We have a growing number of full-time funded research student opportunities.

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Short Courses

Global Surgery Course

This five-day course looks at the provision of surgical services at a global level, encompassing all related specialties including obstetrics, gynaecology and anaesthesia/critical care.

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PGCert in Patient Safety

The Postgraduate Certificate (PGCert) is a part-time course for healthcare professionals, offered by the Department for Continuing Education in collaboration with the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences.

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Student news

  • From L-R: Oluwasegun (Segun) Afolaranmi, Elisha Ngetich and Nwangele Godwin (Emeka) Chukwuemeka

    Oxford high achievers ranked top three Rare Rising Stars

    Congratulations to Elisha Ngetich and Oluwasegun (Segun) Afolaranmi from Oxford University's Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences (NDS) who have been awarded first and second place respectively in this year’s Top 10 Rare Rising Stars.

  • Segun Afolaranmi in the lab

    MSc student wins COVID-19 African Innovation Seed Fund

    Segun Afolaranmi of the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences (NDS) is one of five graduate students currently studying at Oxford who has been awarded a £1,000 grant from the Vice Chancellor’s COVID-19 African Innovation Seed Fund for an entrepreneurial project aimed at addressing global challenges stemming from the pandemic.

  • CT without contrast dye (Figure A) and CT with contrast dye (Figure B)

    Using artificial intelligence (AI) for safer CT imaging of blood vessels

    Congratulations to Dr Regent Lee at the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences (NDS) who has been awarded a grant of £246,226 from Heart Research UK for his research project ‘Using artificial intelligence (AI) for safer CT imaging of blood vessels’.

  • Dr Omair Shariq

    Omair Shariq wins Best Clinical Paper at the American Association of Endocrine Surgeons 2021 Annual Meeting

    Dr Omair Shariq, a DPhil student and clinical research fellow in the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences (NDS) and Oxford Centre for Diabetes Endocrinology and Metabolism (OCDEM), has received the 2021 Best Presentation for Clinical Research award during the 41st Annual Meeting of the American Association of Endocrine Surgeons (AAES), which was held virtually on 25-27 April 2021.

  • George Adigbli, DPhil student in the Transplantation Research and Immunology Group at the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences, University of Oxford.

    Race, science and (im)precision medicine

    Congratulations to George Adigbli, a DPhil student in the Transplantation Research and Immunology Group at the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences, whose article on the limitations of using race in biomedicine has been published this month in Nature Medicine.