The OXCEP Academic Medicine Courses 2025

The OXCEP Academic Medicine Courses 2025, organised and directed by Professors Alan Silman and Steph Dakin, is hosted by Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences in the University of Oxford. 

The two-week OXCEP Academic Medicine Course in Precision Medicine (6 - 19 July) takes place at the Oxford Martin School Lecture Theatre and comprises twenty 90-minute lectures on various frontier topics of Precision Medicine, Global Healthcare Leadership, and Artificial Intelligence in Biomedicine, as well as five academic visits and six hands-on practical coding sessions related to the actual use of Artificial Intelligence in biomedicine, for a cohort of medics, medical researchers, and healthcare policymakers from Asia and beyond. The course attendees stay at the Besse Building on campus of St Edmund Hall Oxford. 

The one-week OXCEP Academic Medicine Course in Precision Dental Medicine (29 June - 5 July 2025) takes place at the Oxford Martin School Lecture Theatre and comprises ten 90-minute lectures on various frontier topics of Head & Neck Oncology and Artificial Intelligence in Biomedicine, as well as three related academic visits and six hands-on practical coding sessions related to the actual use of Artificial Intelligence in biomedicine, for a cohort of senior dental surgeons, dental academics, and biomedical researchers from across Asia. Accommodation has been arranged at the Lady Abraham House of Lincoln College Oxford. 

Only the ‘Entry Level’ coding skills in Python are required of the course attendees, for attending the above hands-on practical coding sessions. 

During the Course, each attendee is required to submit electronically a minimum three-thousand-word essay in any format, presenting his/her original arguable opinion about an academic issue of his/her choosing – typically related to a lecture of the Course, and to fulfil any other requirements as established by the Course Director for such study. 

A full scholarship will be offered to a highly qualified DPhil student, who studies a related subject at St Edmund Hall Oxford, Lincoln College Oxford or Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences, for attending each of the above courses. 

For further information, please contact Course Administrator at adm@oxcep.com.