We’re proud to announce the Oxford–Egypt Evidence-Based Healthcare Alliance with Newgiza University Hospital.
📅 Join us on 30 April 2026 to be a part of this significant moment as we highlight our vision for transforming healthcare in Egypt through evidence-based practices: https://bit.ly/4cCZ2Wt
🎉🏆 Congratulations to prize-winner and recent MSc in Evidence-Based Health Care (EBHC) graduate, Hamid Mithoowani who has been awarded this year’s Kellogg College Gillian Nicholls Prize for best dissertation.
🔗 Read more: https://bit.ly/4lhTyTf
Congratulations to recently completed students Marvin Chung, Amanda Li, Vijay Maharajan, Chloe Lim and Cassandra Townsend on winning this year’s MSc in Evidence-Based Health Care (EBHC) outstanding dissertation award. 🎉🏆
Read more here: https://bit.ly/403Chn9
Applications are open for our ‘Statistical Computing for Health Care Research’ short course.
Develop programming skills and statistical methods such as simulation, bootstrap, optimisation and machine learning.
Apply by 5pm UK, 9 April
Learn more: https://bit.ly/3PbOhk0
The deadline is approaching for our ‘Meta-analysis’ short course for health professionals.⏳
This course explores different meta-analysis methods and common problems encountered with extracting data.
Apply by: 5pm UK, 5 March (limited places available!)
Learn more: https://bit.ly/4rHhykD
A quick reminder that we are offering a limited number of bursaries to current employees of the NHS on selected Evidence-Based Health Care Short courses, as part of our new NHS Short Course Bursary scheme.
Find out more here: https://lifelong-learning.ox.ac.uk/about/ebhc-nhs-short-course-bursary
One week until the January deadline to apply for our Evidence-Based Health Care master’s programmes!
Applicants from eligible African countries may be considered for our EBHC Africa Scholarship, covering programme fees for up to three years.
Learn more: https://bit.ly/4syuMBw
The deadline is approaching for our 'Systematic Reviews' short course. ⏳
Led by @drnlindson.bsky.social, this practical course supports participants to develop and refine their own systematic review questions.
Apply by 5pm UK, 5 Feb (limited places available!)
Learn more: https://bit.ly/49dTLT5
A quick reminder that the deadline to apply, if you wish to be considered for our new EBHC Africa Scholarship for Evidence-Based master's programmes, is next Friday, 28 January.
Find out more about the scholarship here:
https://lifelong-learning.ox.ac.uk/about/ebhc-africa-scholarship
Looking to develop your teaching practice in medical education? 📚
Our Developing Practice in Medical Education short course (in-person, 2-6 Feb 2026) combines reflective, evidence-informed learning, led by Dr David Nunan and Dr Louise Rickard.
Apply by 8 Jan 2026: https://bit.ly/48JHLbT
Would you like to design, conduct and interpret epidemiological studies in large routine healthcare databases?
Our Big Data Epidemiology short course teaches you how to manage data for studies that use electronic health record data.
Applications close this Friday, more here: https://bit.ly/4iXomHX
Last chance to register for our final online info session for our Evidence-Based Health Care Postgraduate Programmes! 🚨
Can't make it live? Register anyway and we'll send you the slides and recording after the event.
Sign up here: https://bit.ly/47PAEOH
Oxford medical students in our Special Study Theme (SST) have published a systematic review on AI-assisted radiology in a peer-reviewed journal. Congratulations to the students and supervisors Dr Jason Oke and Dr Annette Plüddemann!
Read more: https://f.mtr.cool/dlphcfavhc
Last chance to register for our online event tomorrow from 10:30-11:30am GMT for our Evidence-Based Health Care Postgraduate Programmes! 📣
Can't make it live? Register anyway and we'll send you the slides and recording after the event.
Secure your place: https://bit.ly/3LLy3fX
One week left until our final online information session for our postgraduate programmes in Evidence-Based Health Care!
Secure your place: bit.ly/47PAEOH
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#EvidenceBasedMedicine #OxfordStudy
Will you be joining us next Thursday? Just one week to go until our first online information session for our postgraduate programmes! ⏳
Register your place below ⬇️
Thinking of applying for the DPhil in Evidence-Based Health Care?
Join our online Interest Session on 9 Dec, 12–1pm GMT with Prof Carl Heneghan & Dr Anne-Marie Boylan to learn about the process and requirements.
✉️ Email to register: pgr@conted.ox.ac.uk / sienna.wright@conted.ox.ac.uk
Two weeks until our second online info session on our Evidence-Based Health Care courses!
📅 Mon 15 Dec 5-6pm GMT
Meet the course directors and explore MSc, PGDip and PGCert options, including the new Medical Statistics for Big Data short course.
Register: bit.ly/47PAEOH
#EvidenceBasedMedicine
Have you signed up for our online postgraduate info sessions yet?
The first event is coming up next Thursday, 11 December 10:30-11:30 GMT 📅
Hear from our fantastic course directors and bring your questions for a live Q&A.
Register here: bit.ly/3LLy3fX
Considering a Master’s or postgraduate programme in Evidence-Based Health Care?
Join an online info session to hear from course directors, explore your study options and join a live Q&A!
👉11 Dec, 10:30-11:30am: bit.ly/3LLy3fX
👉15 Dec, 5-6pm: bit.ly/47PAEOH
#EvidenceBasedHealthCare #Oxford
Is a DPhil in Evidence-Based Health Care (EBHC) right for you? 💭
Co-directors of the programme Professor Carl Heneghan and Dr Anne-Marie Boylan offer insights on the ‘ideal student’ and who should apply (hint: it’s not just for practicing clinicians).
Learn more: buff.ly/XPdJdJj
#OxfordUniversity
📣 Deadline extended!
Apply by 24 November for the Teaching Evidence-Based Medicine 30th Anniversary Award, celebrating 30 years of advancing EBM education.
Open to educators who’ve attended, taught or contributed to the course.
Learn more: ow.ly/A4Ja50XjLVz
FREE EVENT: New research on #menopause healthcare + Sally Wainwright (Happy Valley) on Riot Women + free evidence-based support programme.
Free event, 29 Nov, Oxford – for anyone experiencing or supporting others through menopause.
www.eventbrite.com/e/menopause-...
Prospective EBHC Master's student from Africa?
We're launching our new EBHC Africa Scholarship to fund a student's fees for up to 3 years of their studies. Applicants offered a place on any MSc in EBHC starting in 2026 who meet the country criteria will be invited to apply .
More: bit.ly/4oPs1cs
📣 Funding opportunity!
Apply for the Teaching Evidence-Based Medicine 30th Anniversary Award - celebrating educators advancing evidence-based medicine.
Learn more & apply by 16 November: bit.ly/4oiXK5W
Following his presentation of evidence to the UK parliamentary Women and Equalities Committee in May, CEBM's Prof Carl Heneghan joined Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour this morning to discuss a call to compensate women caught up in the scandal of faulty breast implants:
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
As Oxford medical students Holden Eaton, Kate Eastwick-Jones and Archie Watt participated in a two-week Special Study Theme with the CEBM.
Read their blog to discover how they took their study further and published their findings in the Family Practice journal.
www.phc.ox.ac.uk/blog/cebm-me...
Happy World EBHC Day!
To mark this special day we'd like to remind you of our new bursaries for current NHS staff which offer a 20% course fee reduction across many short courses including Big Data Epidemiology, coming up next month.
Find out which courses are included:
ow.ly/wkOf50XeUY9
After centuries of use, there's still no consensus on whether nipple shields work and are safe for use.
Many women use them secretly or avoid them due to conflicting advice from healthcare providers.
Our team is conducting the first systematic review to find out what the evidence really says. ⬇
Dr Margaret Smith, co-lead on our new 'Medical Statistics for Big Data' course blogs about a recent study on maternal anaemia and congenital heart disease, using the CPRD GOLD database of electronic health records.
Students on our new course will the acquire skills to do similar.
bit.ly/4o8x1bR
