Postgraduate

MSc and Postgraduate Diploma/ Certificate in International Primary Health Care

Lead College

University College London

Described by The Times newspaper as "an intellectual heavyweight by any standard", UCL was the first university institution in England to admit women on an equal basis as men, the first to admit students regardless of their race or religion and the first to offer systematic teaching of medicine and law. UCL has a total of 72 departments, 60 of which gained the top rating of 5 or 5* in the government's last Research Assessment Exercise.

UCL's medical school and related medical institutions and centres represent one of the largest concentrations of biomedical expertise in Europe. The Department of Primary Care and Population Sciences, which oversees the academic development of the MSc and PG Diploma, is one of the largest in the world and has an international reputation in interdisciplinary research and teaching of community-based sciences. 

UCL team win 2005 e-Tutor of the Year Competition

A team of academics from the MSc in International Primary Health Care programme has been judged winners of the 2005 e-Tutor of the Year Competition coordinated by the Higher Education Academy and the Times Higher Education Supplement.

The judging panel praised the submission for its orientation towards the pedagogical process and how the team – comprising Prof Trisha Greenhalgh, Dr Geoff Wong, Dr Petra Boynton, Ms Jill Russell and Dr Deborah Swinglehurst – went about developing the programme online. With students coming from 11 different countries around the world and from a variety of professions including doctors, nurses and pharmacists, judges were impressed that the technology was almost secondary and very team ­focused. In addition, they were pleased to see how the student experience informed the rationale and design of the programme. The judges also noted the way in which developments on the programme were now influencing the work of other course teams across the university, with several adopting the idea of an induction module.

The UCL team is due to receive their award today at the 12th International Conference of the Association for Learning Technology held at the University of Manchester.