Empowering your health professional education ability
We offer a range of health professional education consultancy services. We work with you in a partnership approach to improve your health professional education, giving you the opportunity to tailor how best to apply our expertise to your individual requirements.
We understand how to develop and deliver world-class education. Using our expertise and years of experience of innovating, we can help you develop your curriculum and staff to provide an outstanding learning environment.
Health professional education is exceptionally strong at Manchester. Our key areas of strength include:
- a history of innovation in health, biology, medicine and health professional education;
- outstanding research and a focus of scholarship across education;
- outstanding people, with renowned leaders in the field;
- decades of experience of internationalisation and working across global regions.
Discover more about why you should work with us.
Consultancy opportunities
How we work with you
We can help you to develop a new curriculum or training programme, or enhance your current curriculum. You may consider licensing our undergraduate or postgraduate pharmacy, dentistry, medicine or other curriculum, or co-developing a joint training or education programme with us. You might want us to train your faculty in a new education approach or help you develop a faculty training programme of your own.
We are proud of our track record in health professional education partnership activity, and know the importance of meaningful collaboration, relationship building, and tailoring to local contexts and environments.
There are five key ways you can partner with us:
- licensing our curricula;
- developing a joint training programme with us;
- working with us in a bespoke consultancy;
- contracting one or more of our health professional education experts as a critical friend;
- contracting one or more of our teams to train health professional education faculty.
Licence our curricula
Benefit from an established curriculum
It takes a long time to develop a world-leading health professional education curriculum. By licensing one of our curricula, you access an outstanding curriculum from a university regarded as one of the very best providers of health professional education.
We have established processes to translate our curricula, blending our expertise with our partners' local knowledge and needs.
Mansoura University, Egypt
We are proud to work with leading educational organisations across the world. We have a longstanding and continuing partnership with Mansoura University, Egypt, which delivers medicine, dentistry and pharmacy programmes created from The University of Manchester's programmes. These lead to awards from Mansoura University.
Joint programmes
We also partner with leading higher education institutions to deliver joint programmes. If licensing is not exactly what you want, our educational experts will be pleased to discuss how you want to engage with us.
Strengthen your health professional education
Improve your programmes
How do you best evaluate the impact of your health professional training programmes on practice? Or determine how to successfully increase their impact?
Our educational behavioural scientist specialists can help you to understand and deliver real improvements where you need them, in any clinical area.
Working in partnership, we can make your training more likely to change and sustain practice.
Develop a bespoke consultancy
Working together
There are lots of ways we can support the development and enhancement of medical education. We are happy to discuss creating a bespoke consultancy that works for you.
Even if you do not currently know what you want from a health professional education consultancy, we would advise you to get in touch with us.
Our experts can help you to identify potential requirements at any stage of considering a consultancy.
Why work with us?
A proven track record
The health professional education teams at Manchester excel in teaching and learning. We have world-leading expertise in international partnerships, spanning over 20 years.
We were the first UK medical school to introduce problem-based learning (PBL) in the 1990s. We have continued with our tradition of innovation, becoming one of the first medical schools to introduce team-based learning.
We hosted the University Medical Assessment Partnership (UMAP), a JISC-funded project that went on to form the basis of the Medical School Council's Assessment Alliance. This ground-breaking work has led to an improvement in the quality of knowledge-based assessment by multiple choice questions across UK medical schools, and has influenced similar projects across the globe.
We have innovated in social accountability, with a focus on world-leading education in clinical communication and the Doubleday Centre for Patient Experience.
We were the first UK medical school to provide iPads for all of our students, and conducted research to understand their impact on learning and the student experience.
Manchester is a truly global university with students from around 160 different countries at any one time. Our education reflects this international outlook: we have experience of both internationalisation and working across global regions.
Our teams have worked in China, India, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Uganda, Tanzania, Ghana and other countries. This work has taken place across a range of higher education institutions and clinical areas, including acute illness management, safety in the operating room and mental health nursing.
Evidence-based education is at the heart of all we do.
We have a commitment to capacity building in education research and scholarship, and have trained supervised health professionals from around the world in education research design, conduct, analysis and publication.
Our people are leaders in health professional education regionally, nationally and internationally.
We are a great team, and this means we can draw on a vast quantity and variety of expertise when we are working with our partners or delivering excellent education locally.
Contact us
Discuss a collaboration
Find out how you can access world-leading expertise in health professional education and training.
General enquiries
Email: international.fbmh@manchester.ac.uk
Health professional and education behavioural insights
Professor Lucie Byrne-Davis
Email: lucie.byrne-davis@manchester.ac.uk
