Course description
Available to a range of health practitioners, the Integrated Clinical Academic Programme (ICAP) at Kent is intended to prepare applicants to apply for an NIHR MRes or Clinical Doctoral Research Fellowship.
Funding is available for up to eight successful interns to receive a bespoke learning and development programme with Kent's Centre for Health Services Studies (CHSS). The programme created for nurses, midwives and allied health professional is delivered one day a month over nine months at our Canterbury campus and involves completion of a 20 credit module 'Introduction to Applied Health Research'.
The module provides health professionals with the skills and competences to undertake applied health research alongside practical service management, delivery and policy development. You will learn how research can be integrated into an applied health setting as well as good research practice. Upon successful completion you will have obtained 20 postgraduate credits to use towards an MRes or PhD.
The programme is supported by Health Education Kent Surrey Sussex (HEKSS) and the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) with funding awarded by HEKSS to support backfill costs, tuition fees and reasonable expenses.
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