Health Data Science for Applied Precision Medicine
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On this course we welcome students with a background in biomedical or computational science as well as medical professionals, allied health professionals and clinical scientists.
Precision Medicine is an area of rapidly growing importance for healthcare organisations globally. It integrates Big Data relevant to healthcare to target safer and more effective treatments to individual patients.
Understanding why individuals differ in susceptibility to disease and response to treatment, and being able to tailor more precise treatment to the individual patient, has clear benefits both for patients and healthcare organisations, as the global Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted.
In this course you will use anonymised real healthcare data linked to genome and clinical imaging data.
Throughout the course you will learn by doing. This will involve:
- Examining principles and current practice of precision medicine and its clinical benefits
- Gaining data management and governance skills for research use of medical data and using R statistical software within a Trusted Research Environment
- Developing knowledge and experience of a range of bioinformatics techniques
- Exploring epidemiology and population genetics and how genes influence drug response and side effects (pharmacogenetics)
- Understanding the basic principles of how Artificial Intelligence and deep learning are applied to clinical imaging
- Producing a prototype grant application and designing, carrying out, interpreting and reporting a systematic review.
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Bachelor Degree in a relevant scientific discipline (for example biological or medical sciences), or an appropriate health professional qualification such as medicine and allied health professions with 3.0 - 3.49 / 4.0.
All prospective students will need to undergo a technical interview to ensure they have the necessary background knowledge to undertake the course.
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Dundee
east-central Scotland
DD1 4HN
United Kingdom
- 1 year
- Full Time
- On Campus Learning
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- Masters
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