School Overview

The School of Clinical Sciences includes all Hospital-based medical and surgical disciplines.  We are a large and dynamic school employing nearly 400 staff, principally in the Queen’s Medical Centre and City Hospital Nottingham Campuses but also at Kings Meadow Campus and the University Campus in the Centre for Biomolecular Sciences.  About 70 of our staff are at Associate Professor grade or above and more than 50 of these are clinicians.

Our Mission Statment

1. To deliver internationally-competitive research. In particular to concentrate on  research which will make a real difference to patients in the short and longer  terms.
2. To provide innovative and inspiring professional teaching to undergraduate medical students, masters students and trainee researchers working towards degrees of DM and PhD.
3. To deliver cutting edge patient care in association with our NHS colleagues.

Research

The School supports basic, translational and clinical research and works closely with the NHS, particularly the Nottingham University Hospital NHS Trust.  We focus on areas of excellence where we are nationally or internationally leading.  These include our three National Institute for Health Research-funded Biomedical Research Units in GI and Liver Disease, Respiratory Disease and Hearing.  Nottingham is the only University/NHS Trust Partnership in the UK to host three of these prestigious national units for patient-based translational research. We have also recently been funded by the Arthritis Research Campaign as their National Pain Centre. 

As well as cutting edge translational research at the interface between science and medicine, we have world-leading research programmes in basic science and run large, influential clinical trials. We are always looking for healthy volunteers and volunteer patients for clinical trials and translational studies. Visit Divisional Websites for more information.

Teaching

We teach medical students doing the clinical components of their professional training and pride ourselves on our innovative student-centred clinical training.  We also run internationally-acclaimed masters courses in stem cell technology, sport and exercise medicine, assisted reproductive technology and translational neuroimaging. 

Our biggest recent innovations are in research training.  We have recently established a dedicated PhD and DM training programme in translational and clinical research. This programme, for both clinicians and basic scientists, contains taught modules in all aspects of modern translational research training alongside opportunities to perform original research in any one of our leading units, including our NIHR Biomedical Research Units.

Clinical Service

Most of our Schools’ Senior Researchers and Teachers are also clinicians who dedicate 50% of their time to patient care within the Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust.  This close juxtaposition brings cutting-edge clinical care to our patients and clinical relevance to our research and teaching.  We are closely integrated with our full time NHS clinical colleagues, many of whom are themselves leaders in research and teaching, who work closely with the School.  We are working to increase further the mutual benefit from integration between the University and NHS.