Transform your career with the Data Science for Health and Social Care (Online Learning) programme, where cutting-edge data science skills meet health and social care challenges. Our curriculum is designed to teach you the critical data science skills necessary for modern health and social care environments. You will gain knowledge of the fundamentals of data science, developing skills that will enable you to interpret, analyze, and interrogate data to make decisions in the health and social care sector.

This three-year, part-time, fully online programme is jointly offered by the University of Edinburgh and the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. The Surgical Sciences (Online Learning) MSc programme offers you the unique opportunity to have direct contact with international students, tutors and experts in the different surgical specialities from across the world, widening your understanding of evidence-based surgical and academic surgery practice.

The MSc Primary Care Ophthalmology is developed in partnership with NHS Education for Scotland (NES) as part of the Scottish Government's directive to empower and enhance the shift of balance of care for cataract, glaucoma, medical retina, emergency and ophthalmic triage from secondary to primary care.

One Health (Online Learning) MSc, PgDip (ICL), PgCert (ICL), and PgProfDev sits at the interface between human, animal and ecosystem health. As such, it is a fast-evolving subject area, well suited to preparing professionals looking to tackle the wide range of intractable and highly complex health challenges of the 21st century. This programme is delivered fully online, making the most of the University’s pioneering, award-winning online learning environments.

The Epidemiology (Online Learning) MSc, PgCert, PgDip Transform your passion for population health into actionable expertise with the University of Edinburgh's MSc Epidemiology programme. This programme is designed to give you the foundational knowledge and analytical skills necessary for a career in epidemiology. Through learning and applying epidemiological concepts, along with practical statistical training, including the use of R software, this programme prepares the epidemiological leaders of tomorrow.

The Food Safety (Online Learning) MSc, PgDip (ICL), PgCert (ICL), PgProfDev Based in the Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies (R(D)SVS), the MSc is uniquely positioned to draw expertise from the world-class staff based in the vet school, Roslin Institute and the Global Academy of Agriculture and Food Security. Globally, poor food safety affects 600 million people and results in 420,000 deaths in a year (World Health Organisation report; Estimates of the global burden of foodborne diseases, 2015).

The different global crises that the world is facing are interconnected, and many are determined by the way that we have used the earth’s resources, and prioritised development and growth. ‘Planetary Health’ is a new field of study which examines these factors and their consequences, and looks at ways in which redesigning, connecting and leveraging the interdependent health, environment and economic systems could offer new global solutions. The challenge is how we can do this in a socially, economically and environmentally empathetic manner. This interdisciplinary MSc programme has been developed with expertise from across the College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Science and the College of Science and Engineering.

The Clinical Animal Behaviour (Online Learning) MSc, PgDip (ICL), PgCert (ICL), PgProfDev This programme provides flexible postgraduate study designed to specifically address the demand for online clinical animal behaviour teaching within a supported learning environment. The programme will utilize an evidence-based approach to explore the potential motivations, management and treatment options for abnormal and/or problem behaviours commonly expressed by companion animal species living within a domestic environment.

Conservation Medicine (Online Learning) MVetSci, PgDip (ICL), PgCert (ICL), PgProfDev is an established field that continues to evolve as we develop our ability to study the complex relationships and interactions between animal health, human health and ecosystem health. It emerged in the 1990s as a response to the need for a more holistic and interdisciplinary approach to the conservation of biodiversity. In particular, the importance of health in many conservation issues was widely recognised.

This postgraduate programme in Global Health and Infectious Diseases aims to address the challenges posed by infectious diseases by developing your expertise in surveillance, prevention, and control of infectious diseases. You will explore and address local and global health challenges related to infectious diseases and their impact on public health.

Stem Cells and Translational Neurology (Online Learning) MSc, PgDip (ICL), PgCert (ICL), PgProfDev (including a raft of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s Disease) has recently become the leading cause of death in the UK. Stem cells are a novel and relatively young branch of scientific research that holds the potential for not only therapies but also to be able to accurately model these distinctly human diseases. This Stem Cells and Translational Neurology (Online Learning) MSc, PgDip (ICL), PgCert (ICL), PgProfDev programme offers cutting edge translational neuroscience focused on stem cells, neurodegenerative diseases, regeneration and models (both animal and cell).

Our online Clinical Education MSc, PgDip, PgCert (Online Learning) programme takes advantage of our world-renowned expertise to enhance your abilities to teach and assess students in a clinical environment. Our aim is to help you reflect upon, and share thoughts about, your practice while increasing your understanding of applying 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.

Global Food Security and Nutrition (Online Learning) MSc, PgDip (ICL), PgCert (ICL), PgProfDev is concerned with the availability, access, and utilisation of safe, nutritious and sustainable food for all, especially vulnerable groups within society. The challenges related to food are not only the existence of approximately 795 million undernourished people in the world (Food and Agricultural Organization) but also the increasing presence of diet-related, non-communicable diseases (e.g. diabetes and heart disease).

This Cancer Biology and Precision Oncology new programme will equip students with the knowledge and skills required to tackle the challenges related to cancer diagnosis and treatment in the 21st Century. The programme will integrate an in-depth understanding of the molecular basis of cancer with the knowledge and skills required to rapidly translate this understanding to new personalized treatment protocols and diagnostic tools. Individuals with this dual expertise are essential in the rapidly advancing field of precision oncology.

In the veterinary management of animals, anesthesia (rendering animals unconscious to permit procedures) and analgesia (reducing the pain an animal is suffering) have vital importance in improving animal welfare, as well as permitting ongoing developments in medical and surgical advances. Knowledge and advances in anesthesia over the last 20 years have been considerable. We can use techniques to block sensation locally or over a region of the body not just total unconsciousness.