Opportunities for clinically qualified trainees

Taught postgraduate degree - MSc in Oncology

A day release programme for medically qualified candidates who intend to pursue a professional career in the field of clinical or medical oncology.

For those wishing to follow a clinical academic training path the opportunities are listed below in the order that they would be undertaken.

NIHR Academic Clinical Fellows

The ICR and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust have a number of National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) Academic Clinical Fellowships available as part of the NIHR Integrated Academic Training Programme. These are three-year posts for clinicians in the early stages of specialty training and provide trainees with 25 per cent protected time for research training.

Higher degree by research - Doctor of Medicine (Research)

Clinically-qualified trainees can register for either a two-year MD(Res). 

Higher degree by research - PhD

The ICR is able to fund a small number of three-year clinical training fellowships funded through the Wellcome Trust and from the Cancer Research UK Centre, a strategic partnership between Cancer Research UK, the ICR and The Royal Marsden aimed at supporting joint working between academic researchers and clinicians across the local area.

If you have your own funding for a PhD, please contact the registry.

• View the Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Fellowships
• View the Cancer Research UK Clinical Research Fellowships

NIHR Clinical Lecturers

NIHR Academic Clinical Lectureships (ACLs) are aimed at those who are advanced in their specialty training, have completed a research degree and show outstanding potential for continuing a career in academic medicine. ACLs spend 50 per cent of their time undertaking specialist clinical training and 50 per cent undertaking research training.