This interdisciplinary programme provides you with up-to-date knowledge on data analytics, medical statistics, machine learning and artificial intelligence, as well as the design and analysis of health studies. These skills are highly sought after by employers in the healthcare sectors in the UK and globally, and ultimately, help them to improve public health. This MSc prepares you to work as a health data scientist or medical statistician in the public, charity or private sectors.
The programme is designed to prepare graduates for roles such as: health data analysts, data engineers, data scientists, data managers, data modellers and medical statisticians. The skills developed and knowledge gained during this programme are highly sought after by employers in the healthcare sectors in the UK and globally, including NHS, Clinical Trials Units, healthcare industries, government agencies, research institutions and consultancy units. The skills developed also provide opportunities for employment elsewhere including in the finance and business sectors that invest in healthcare products. The programme also provides a solid foundation for those graduates who would like to continue to PhD study. The University of Plymouth hosts several Doctoral Training Partnerships and Centres for Doctoral Training funded by UK Research Councils and provides bespoke training for postgraduate researchers.
Equip applicants from many undergraduate disciplines to gain specialisations in health data analytics, one of the fastest growing scientific areas in the world.
Develop research skills and mastery of advanced health data research through an individual project supervised by world-leading subject experts.
Establish proficiency in the use and application of state-of-the-art programming languages, such as R and Python, with additional instruction in SQL and NoSQL.
Benefit from easy access to cutting-edge specialist labs and next-generation software and hardware. You may access facilities such as our NVIDIA seed-funded GPU Research Centre and our High-Performance Computing Centre.
When our new engineering and design facility is launched, students in engineering, science and the arts will have access to a range of specialist equipment and innovative laboratories.
Master statistical principles, and how to apply the resulting methods to solve practical problems related to the collection, analyses and interpretations of medical data.
Core modules in medical data analytics, computing, and health studies, with flexible choices in data science, artificial intelligence and health studies.
1 year Full-time
