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.
Wednesday 31 July, 13:00-15:00 in Seminar Room 1 & 2, IoPPN Main Building, Denmark Hill Campus
Course Description
Getting published gives you the opportunity to share your work and experience, provoke debate, educate others, and change practice - but it can be difficult to get started!
Please join our workshop to hear top tips from Professor Alan Simpson and Professor Marlies Ostermann who will be sharing their experience as journal editors on what the publishers are looking for and how to approach writing. The workshop will also provide lunch and a chance to meet fellow clinical academic researchers across King's Health Partners.
Speakers
Prof Alan Simpson is Professor of Mental Health Nursing. He works across the Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative Care, the Health Service and Population Research Department in the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience and with South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust.
Professor Marlies Ostermann is a Consultant in Critical Care & Nephrology at Guy’s & St. Thomas’ Foundation Trust, London and Honorary Senior Lecturer at the Department of Inflammation Biology, School of Immunology & Microbial Sciences int he Faculty of Life Science and Medicine, King’s College London.
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Thursday 1 August 2024, 13:00-15:00 at Harefield Hospital Room TBC
The King’s Clinical Academic Training Office (KCATO) is coming to Harefield Hospital!
We will introduce KCATO and the clinical academic career path to health professionals, showing the possibilities and benefits of becoming a clinical academic at King’s. There will be a panel discussion with clinical academic leaders reflecting on their careers to date and discussing the benefits of engaging in research.
The discussion will be chaired by Prof Frances Williams (KCATO Director and Professor of Genomic Epidemiology) and will feature guest speakers:
All staff across King's College London and King's Health Partners are welcome to attend. There will be drinks and food available during the event. The capacity for the event is 50 and a calendar invitation will be sent to confirm a place to those registered.
Please complete this short form to register your place at the event.
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.
Training Programmes Coordinator, NIHR IAT and Centre for Translational Medicine
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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.
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