MSc in Clinical Embryology
Welcome to the home page of the Oxford MSc in Clinical Embryology. This one-year, residential, taught MSc aims to provide graduates from either a scientific or clinical background with advanced theoretical and practical understanding of human reproductive biology, embryology, infertility and assisted reproductive technology (ART). We place significant emphasis on providing ‘hands-on’ practical training in a range of laboratory techniques associated with scientific research, clinical diagnosis, or ART, including vitrification, comparative array hybridisation, gamete micromanipulation and infra-red laser biopsy.
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Winchester House
The MSc course is based alongside IVI UK in purpose-built premises Winchester House, Oxford Science Park, with dedicated state-of-the-art teaching and research facilities.
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Graduates' career paths
Our graduates come to us from a variety of medical, academic and scientific backgrounds. Many have secured a range of exciting opportunities across the world. For example, many of our graduates are now studying for higher research degrees (e.g., PhD/DPhil) and pursuing academic or research careers. This pie chart relates to the MSc in Clinical Embryology exit data (2008-2014), n=89.
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Teaching awards
We are firm believers in understanding how our students learn and take active steps in the design of our teaching and curriculum to provide the best possible learning experience. Our course and staff have won numerous awards which reflect this commitment to excellence in teaching.
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State-of-the-art laboratories
Our MSc course provides students with theoretical and practical understanding of human reproductive biology, embryology, infertility and ART including the very latest developments in ART, legislation, ethics, and quality control.
Read moreOur graduates have secured a range of exciting opportunities across the world. For example, many of our graduates are now studying for higher research degrees (e.g., PhD/DPhil) and pursuing academic or research careers. Others have secured positions as embryologists or work for global fertility companies. Several of our graduates have now begun medical school, either within the UK or overseas. In many cases, our students had already qualified as physicians before they came to Oxford and used our course as a means of specialising in fertility medicine.
The MSc course is based alongside IVI UK in purpose-built premises Winchester House, Oxford Science Park, with dedicated state-of-the-art teaching and research facilities. The course, and our teaching staff, has won a variety of teaching excellence awards. In 2016, our Course Director, Dr Kevin Coward, was a finalist in the Royal Society of Biology’s Higher Education Bioscience Teacher of the Year Competition, an award scheme which aims to identify the best teaching talent across the UK.
Established in 2008
126 graduates from 39 countries
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Kevin Coward
Director of the MSc in Clinical Embryology. Principal Investigator/Group Leader
01865 951030
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We are currently closed for applications for entry in October 2018. If places are still available, we may reopen for applications on Tuesday 1st May 2018.
MSc course book
The ‘Textbook of Clinical Embryology’ was published in the summer of 2013 and is based upon the structure and content of the Oxford MSc in Clinical Embryology.
Chapters were predominantly written by our course lecturers. The book represents a valuable reference manual and revision aid for those working or studying in the field of clinical embryology. Students registered on the MSc course are provided with a complimentary copy of the textbook to help with their studies.