Health Data Science for Applied Precision Medicine MSc
University of Dundee
About this program
Health Data Science for Applied Precision Medicine MSc
In this course, we welcome students with a background in biomedical or computational science as well as medical professionals, allied health professionals, and clinical scientists.
You can learn how Big Data (including genomics, biomarkers, and clinical imaging) and electronic patient records, can be applied in a Precision Medicine approach to improve the healthcare of individuals and populations.
Precision Medicine is an area of rapidly growing importance for healthcare organizations globally. It integrates Big Data relevant to healthcare to target safer and more effective treatments for 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 organizations, as the global Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted.
Admission requirements
Entry requirements
UK undergraduate degree
A UK Upper Second-Class Honours (2:1) degree OR a UK Medical degree
Your degree should be in a relevant scientific discipline (for example biological or medical sciences), or an appropriate health professional qualification such as medicine and allied health professions.
All prospective students will need to undergo a technical interview to ensure they have the necessary background knowledge to undertake the course.
English language requirements
IELTS Academic
- Overall - 6.5
- Writing - 6.0
- Listening - 5.5
- Reading - 5.5
- Speaking - 6.0
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Program content
These modules are an essential part of your course.
- Machine learning and artificial intelligence methods in healthcare
- Epidemiology
- Precision Medicine: Principles and Practices
- Fundamentals of Applied Health Data Science for Precision Medicine Research
- Research Methods
- Advanced Applied Health Data Science
- Health Data Science for Applied Precision Medicine MSc Dissertation
Scholarships & funding
Several scholarship options are available. Please visit the university website for more information.
Program delivery
You’ll be taught through a mixture of:
- lectures
- seminars
- self-directed study
- practical sessions accessing and analyzing real clinical data in a safe haven environment
Assessment
You’ll be assessed by:
- essays
- class tests
- research project
Tuition
Tuition fees:
- Scotland: £12,000 per year of study
- England, Wales, Northern Ireland, and Republic of Ireland: £12,000 per year of study
- International: £26,600 per year of study
Qualification
In this course, you will use anonymised real healthcare data linked to genome and clinical imaging data.
You will be taught by renowned biomedical research scientists and doctors applying precision principles in their clinical practice, giving you a comprehensive range of relevant applied skills, insights, and knowledge.
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 in 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.
- Undertaking a final research project building on the combination of skills, techniques, and insights developed throughout the course, to help you consolidate your data science skills.
Career paths
Precision medicine is a multidisciplinary subject and therefore this course is designed to be flexible for a wide range of backgrounds. Many organizations including pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers, healthcare organizations, and academic institutions are actively recruiting individuals with skills knowledge, and experience in healthcare data science and its application in Precision Medicine.
Whatever your background, you’ll develop a comprehensive understanding of data science. You will enhance your capabilities in disseminating research work as well as develop transferable skills in critical thinking, and applying knowledge to problems and systems that are relevant to your current or future place of work. You will understand the process for the successful application of precision medicine in a healthcare system.
Roles in the field include lab-based biomedicine and computational scientists, geneticists, bioinformaticians, data analysts, and clinicians. There are also opportunities for commercial development roles.
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