The Medical Microbiology MSc course will offer students
both the theoretical knowledge of understanding how pathogens actually
cause infectious disease in humans. But
also real practical skills
that will be translatable into their
future careers probably
half the course is actually spent in a
microbiology lab
doing experiments themselves rather than
in a lecture room
where they're just listening to experts talking about their field.
So the students will take away both sorts of theoretical knowledge
that they will learn during the lectures but
they will be able to apply that knowledge
and actually learn genuine practical
skills that will be useful
either in hospital,  in research labs, in
academia
or even in industry as well. 
What I like most about the course was the great correlation between basic science and clinical practice
Also not relying on textbooks for
lectures but
on the latest research. I really liked the
fact that each lecture was given by an
expert in that particular field and it was  
as if you would go to a specialized
conference every day. 
I found that the relationship between students and staff was very close. Through that, I am able to gain
more opportunities and understand a lot more.
One of the big advantages of doing the MSc in medical microbiology
at the London School, is the fact that
the practicals
actually reflect a real life laboratory situation.
The skills that we equip students with
on the MSc, will be transferable to almost every laboratory situation.
The students will actually get experience of dealing
with pathogenic organisms, they'll
actually get to handle
bacterial pathogens, work with viral
pathogens
and actually sort of get to do
diagnostic tests
that they still use in hospital microbiology
but also learn research skills and both
molecular biology skills but also
in terms of next-generation sequencing as well
so depending on where the student's
interests are
particularly with their projects, they can
actually learn an awful lot of different
techniques that again could be useful for their future careers. 
The best thing about teaching here
was that we get specialised lecturing,
everyone knows
a great deal about what we are being lectured about and everyone seems very passionate
about what they teach so it naturally makes us very passionate
Why this MSc course I believe is superior to many others
is because it does have the support of many experts in the field of medical microbiology
and particularly with the practicals, we give one-to-one support to each and every student
I think one of the strengths of the MSc course is the summer projects
that the students will do for three months at the end of the MSc course
A number of different projects are offered to the students
both here at the School but also around London in different institutions
but also a number of students are able to go abroad to do their projects
We've had students last year go out to Tanzania, to the Gambia and out to Vietnam
My project was on investigating
the role of Campylobacter jejuni outer membrane vesicles in bacterial secretion of virulence factors
I really enjoyed my project and I was delighted that my work was included in a publication
that came out a year later
I came to the School with the view of studying Neisseria gonorrhoeae further for my research project
but it was when I started learning more about Campylobacter through the course director's lectures
that I realised I had a new passion
I hope that in the future, after finishing my PhD 
eventually I'll become a lecturer and someone who's active in their research
and eventually have my own research group
