本课程将获得研究型硕士学位，其学生来自合格的医生，培训过的外科医师和受过研究金培训的外科医师。该程序的主要功能是为医生提供独立研究的结构化培训和经验，尤其是外科专业知识。它还具有辅助功能，可以为有手术愿望的医生提供特定学科的培训，并为学生提供一些获得临床领导技能的机会，也可以作为未来在外科和更广泛医学领域的领导角色。研究培训和临床领导力培训将在Waurn Ponds校园内进行，大量利用云资源来支持教学。尽管与沃恩池塘校园协调，但研究活动将主要在学生的工作地点进行，尽管医学学院的解剖学实验室还将在涉及尸体检
This course of study leads to a Masters by Research degree, with the students drawn from qualified medical practitioners, surgeons in training and fellowship-trained surgeons. The program has a primary function in providing doctors with a structured training and experience in independent research, specifically in the surgical speciality. It also fulfils a secondary function in providing discipline-specific training for doctors with aspirations in surgery, and provides an option for students to gain some skills in clinical leadership, for future leadership roles in surgery and broader medicine. Research training and clinical leadership training will be carried out at the Waurn Ponds campus, with heavy utilisation of online resources to support the teaching. Research activity, although coordinated from the Waurn Ponds campus, will mainly be carried out at the student’s place of work, although the School of Medicine’s Anatomy Laboratory will also be utilised where the Clinical Anatomy Investigation project involves cadaveric inspection or dissection. Primary supervision will be shared by academics within the School and other experts local to the workplace.