Short Courses

King's offers a wide-range of Continuing Professional Development Courses (CPD).
Discover more about our short courses below:

• Advanced Clinical Pharmacology
  Learn about practical and ethical issues associated with non-patient volunteer studies, the design of such studies and interpretation of the results.
• Ethics and Good Practice for Medicine
  This module provides training over five days on the concepts of ethics, good practice and risk/benefit in the development and marketing of medicines. It introduces the principles of ethics before focusing on ethical practice and the regulation of these practices.
• Medicines and the Healthcare Market
  This module provides advanced training over five days in the principles of how to develop effective medicines through integration of medicines development into the context of the current and future healthcare market. It introduces the topic of clinical development of a product and explains how a medicine can achieve its full potential through acceptance by patients, healthcare professionals, policy makers and regulators, and market positioning.
• Strategic Medical Affairs
  This module provides, over five days, training on the skills and knowledge required to function in one of the strategic roles held by practitioners working in Medical Affairs teams of pharmaceutical companies. The module will provide an overview of the roles of medical affairs professionals, their approaches in developing and actioning strategic projects that facilitate the development, commercialisation, life-cycle management and use of new medicines.
• The Regulation of Medicines
  This module introduces the core concepts of regulatory science, notably the scientific-technical basis for creating-amending regulations; the interplay of science and public policy e.g. for protecting the public and the influence of regulations on the development and lifecycle of medicines.
• Non-Clinical and Early Development
  This module provides training over five days on the principles and practical application of chemistry, pharmacology, toxicology and pharmacy to the discovery and development of new medicines using sound study protocols, monitoring strategies and data gathering techniques in early clinical trials including non-patient volunteer studies. The pharmacology element includes the basic principles, plus the use of animal models, including transgenic models.
• Clinical Trials and Biostatistics
  This module provides training over five days on clinical trial design, analysis and interpretation. The module highlights the mutual importance of the contribution of both clinical and statistical teams. This module aims to provide a broad understanding of statistics and data management as they apply to medicines development, including those used in clinical trials, to enable a power calculation to be done, to organise clinical trial data and to analyse and report the data. The module will consist of classroom teaching with a large element of practical experience designing studies and evaluating, analysing and presenting data.
• The Safety of Medicines and Pharmacoepidemiology
  This module provides advanced training over five days on the principles of drug safety assessment (pharmacovigilance, PV), pharmacoepidemiology (PEp) and pharmacoeconomics (PEc) applied during the development and marketing of medicines. Students will be exposed to the techniques used to acquire, assess and analyse safety information as well as the principles of PEp applied to product safety assessment and PEc approaches to support an evaluation of cost benefit of the medicine when used in practice.
• Clinical Trial Management
  This module provides, over five days, an in-depth understanding of the practical issues associated with running clinical trials, including large scale multi-national projects, the standard tools available to managers to ensure that projects are completed according to plan and particularly the standard repertoire of activities and responses used to ensure optimal communication with investigators and other parties.

GMDP Academy Online Short Course

Offered by King’s College London and the GMDP Academy (Global Medicines Development Professionals), this online CPD programme is designed for biomedical professionals working in medical affairs related functions and other areas of the medicines development arena within the biopharmaceutical industries and clinical research organisations.

It consists of six modules to be offered asynchronously online, synchronous webinars and group projects, aiming to create a well-rounded, competent Medical Affairs workforce. A CPD certificate is granted to those students completing the six modules and final assessment.

Applications open in the autumn of each year and the programme runs from January-December.

We also offer the option to take one or two modules from our MSc courses, as part of your continued professional development. The modules are self-contained units taught over four or five days, and assessed independently.