This course is designed as a complete curriculum in clinical microbiology for new entrants into these fields and as an update and extension for those already in it. They provide clinicians and scientists with theoretical, laboratory, and clinically applied aspects of their discipline and associated subjects, such as molecular biology. Your formal teaching will include lectures, practicals and workshops. The programme will: Give you the maximum hands-on experience in all aspects of clinical microbiology. The practicals are taught in a large purpose-built teaching laboratory; Introduce you to a broad-base of study with extensive coverage of topics in clinical microbiology; Develop the service and research careers of clinicians, clinical scientists, biomedical scientists and other professionals interested in working in clinical microbiology. Clinical Microbiology is based at The Centre for Immunology and Infectious Disease, in the Blizard Institute. The practical classes are an important component of the programme and are designed to give the student maximum hands-on experience, particularly in basic clinical microbiology. Students are encouraged to relate current practices in their sponsoring institution to their studies, and to discuss and critically evaluate these techniques with their colleagues in the light of their formal teaching. The practical classes are taught in the purpose-built teaching laboratory, which is well equipped with all necessary materials and is based on a routine clinical microbiology laboratory. In addition to the formal face to face teaching, students use online learning materials in the university’s electronic classroom (currently Blackboard CE8). Modules are assessed by a combination of in-course assessments and end-of-module examinations. In addition to traditional written and practical examinations, assessments include posters, oral presentations, case reports, essays and comprehension of scientific papers. Each assessment is designed to be a learning experience as well as a test of your knowledge.