Doctoral development
Learn more about the training opportunities at King's.
The King’s Clinical Academic Training Office (KCATO) offers advice, best practice and information on navigating a clinical academic career. It is open to all health professionals who are based at King's or a King's Health Partner. We design and deliver bespoke training and development for all health professionals across all stages of their research careers to support our ambition to build a thriving pipeline of research-active health professionals.
Health professional researchers need to balance the pressures of clinical service, academic training and research. The KCATO will provide trainee-centred guidance to navigate the career journey so that King’s clinical academics emerge as highly skilled clinicians with the ability to deliver globally impactful research, as well as being inspirational role models.
The administration of the King's College London NIHR Integrated Academic Training Programme has moved under KCATO. If you have any queries on the IAT Programme, please use the same email as before IATadmin@kcl.ac.uk.
King’s College London hosts a thriving community of research-active health professionals, many of whom are engaged in a formal period of research such as a DClinPsy, MPhil, MRes, PhD, or a pre/post-doctoral research position.
Health professionals are also sometimes known as clinical academic researchers, and we will occasionally make use of this and related terms to refer to pre-doctoral, doctoral, and post-doctoral researchers on a clinical academic pathway at King's.
Health Professionals include, but are not limited to, medical doctors, dentists, nurses, midwives, allied health professionals, and other health professionals such as clinical psychologists and pharmacists.
This page provides information, resources, and events for this community, provided via the King's Clinical Academic Training Office (KCATO) and other King’s departments.
Friday 26 April 2024, 13:00-14:00 (GMT) via Zoom
Course Description
If you answered yes to the above questions then this workshop is for you. During this 90 minute in-person session we will look at the role that mentoring can play in one’s career, ascertain what you need from a mentor (or mentors) and explore ideas for finding and working effectively with mentors.
It is an interactive session for anyone that has, or intends to have, a dual career in clinical practice and research.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this course, you will understand:
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Tuesday 21 May 2024, 09:30-12:00 (GMT) via Zoom
Course Description
KCATO will host a workshop on making a fellowship application specifically for clinical academics across King's.
The half-day online workshop is designed for clinical academics who already have an interview date (or are hoping to be called to a panel interview). This session will help them to:
The session will rely heavily on using real examples of successful pitches from researchers we have worked with in the past. These range from PhD students to Professors and cover a broad variety of clinical disciplines.
By the end of this course, you will understand:
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The KCATO Brochure outlines the various training and resources open to health professionals across King's and our NHS Trust partners via the KCATO.
Further information and resources on training, development, funding and careers are available on the newly launched KCATO Hub. For colleagues in any of the King's Health Partners who wish to access the KCATO Hub, please request access via this form.
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Health professional researchers will receive quarterly newsletters from the King's Clinical Academic Training Office. If you have not received the newsletters and would like to be added to our mailing lists, please sign up to our newsletter via our online form.
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All doctoral research students in the Health Faculties at King’s enrolled on a DClinPsy, MPhil, MRes, PhD, or other PGR degree, automatically receive monthly email updates from the Health Sciences Doctoral Training Centre.
However, if you are a pre- or post-doctoral research-active Health Professional, for example an NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow (ACF or PCAF), Academic Clinical Lecturer (ACL), Clinical Research Fellow, or similar, at King's, and would like to be added to the HSDTC mailing lists, please email hs-dtc@kcl.ac.uk.
At King’s we train the future generation of Health Professional research leaders across many disciplines.
Here, we introduce you to some of our Health Professional Researchers at King’s. We interviewed them to get an insight into their journey into a PhD and how they manage dual careers.
Learn more about the training opportunities at King's.
Training and development and careers support for health researchers.
Find out more about our Doctoral training partnerships.
About the Centre of Doctoral Studies and available student support.