MSc/PgDip/PgCert in Medical Informatics
Duration
MSc: 12 months full-time, 24 months part-time
PgDip; 9 months full-time; 18 months part-time
PgCert: 6 months full-time
Entry requirements:At least a 2.2 degree or equivalent in any scientific or engineering discipline, including natural, mathematical and cognitive science. Applications from graduates in non-scientific disciplines will be considered, provided that your first degree contains a significant computational or empirical component, such as programming, experimental design, and data analysis; and you attained a 2.1 or equivalent. All international students whose first language is not English will need to satisfy our English Language requirements; for further information see the Postgraduate Prospectus atwww.exeter.ac.uk/postgraduate
2009/10 Fees
MSc: UK/EU £4,500 (pro rata for part-time); International £12,250
PgDip: UK/EU £3,000 (pro rata for part-time); International £8,090
PgCert: UK/EU £1,500; International £4,045
Funding opportunities: Generous bursaries and scholarships of up to £2,000 are available each year from the School. There are also opportunities for University Full-Fee Masters Scholarships, British Council Fellowships and Awards, and Foreign and Commonwealth Scholarships. Visit www.exeter.ac.uk/biosciences/postgraduate for further information.
Apply online at www.exeter.ac.uk/postgraduate
Programme information
- World class research regularly published in peer-reviewed papers including Nature, Science and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA
- Excellent facilities with £25 million invested in state-of-the-art laboratories and platform technologies including functional genomic, bioinformatic and analytical infrastructure
- £12 million funding in Research Council grants. Our success rate in BBSRC response mode is above the national average and the School ranks in the top six universities for successful NERC awards
- Generous studentships available
- Industrial placements encouraged
- Option to study by distance learning
- Degrees designed to deliver high quality research supervision to develop and nurture the scientific potential of all graduates
- Supported by EPSRC as a Masters in Research
Medical informatics is the scientific field that deals with the storage, retrieval, sharing and optimal use of biomedical information, data and knowledge for problem solving and decision making. The discipline shares several core modules with the mainstream Bioinformatics, together with a number of specialist modules taught in collaboration with the Peninsula Medical School, the Wellcome Biocatalysis Centre and the ESRC Centre for Genomics in Society (EGENIS). These specialist modules will cover quantitative methods for studies in the fields of health and medicine, such as the design and statistical analysis of drug trials.
There is a growing interest in medical informatics among medical researchers and pharmaceutical companies, especially in modelling, simulations, gene expression control, clinical databases, probabilistic modelling and medical statistics. Medical informatics impacts on all basic and applied fields in biomedical science and is closely tied to modern information technologies, notably in the areas of e-science and bioinformatics.
Core modules
- Professional Skills
- Tools and Techniques for Bioinformatics
- Introduction to Molecular Biology
- Sequence Analysis and Structural Bioinformatics
- Research Methods
- Research Project
- Introduction to Genomics in Society
Option modules
- Quantitative Research Methods in Health
- Genomics, Transcriptomics and Proteomics
