Medical coup for Napier

SINGAPORE is turning to Scotland for biomedical expertise after awarding a £3 million training contract to Edinburgh Napier University.

The deal between the university and Singapore's workforce development agency and clinical research consortium will see more than 400 people trained in monitoring the testing of new medical treatments and devices.

The programme, understood to be the first of its kind for the city state's clinical research industry, is due to start later this month and run for three years.

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Qualifications will be jointly awarded by Napier, CSM Academy International and the workforce development agency. Experts from Napier will deliver the course using a mixture of online and face-to-face tuition.

Students can work towards an MSc in clinical research from Napier, which has already delivered the course to students in North and South America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia.

Dr Lynn Kilbride, centre director for nursing and applied healthcare research at Napier, said: "Clinical research changes rapidly due to healthcare trends and legislation, and it is important that workers have the very best knowledge and skills. Liver cancer and out-of-hospital cardiac arrests are key issues in the region and the work will help to tackle these."

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