Primary Care Clinical Sciences at Birmingham is one of the largest centres for academic primary care in Europe - focusing on applied and translational research under five main clinical programmes:
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Behavioural Medicine and Mental Health
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Cancer & Chronic Disease
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Cardiovascular Disease
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Rehabilitation
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Healthcare Quality
In addition to these, we have the following cross-cutting methodological themes
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Outcomes Research
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Qualitative Research
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Ethnicity and Health
We are also developing a programme of research in medical education
The programmes are supported by methodology expertise and major investments in research infrastructure, particularly the
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Primary Care Clinical Research & Trials Unit (PCCRTU)
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and large Primary Care Research Network (MidReC)
Primary Care is a major research strength within the College of Medical and Dental Sciences as evidenced by the fact 65% of the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) submission in this area was considered internationally excellent or world leading, including 35% of world leading quality. The RAE 2008 results places the University's primary care researchers as amongst the top in the UK. As a consequence, we are a founding member of the National School of Primary Care Research
We are interested to hear from anyone who is keen to work with us, particularly in areas of existing strength.