University of Exeter

Program Information

Degree Offered

MSc Medical Informatics

Format: Campus

Program Description:

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.

There is a growing interest among medical researchers and pharmaceutical companies in biomedical informatics, especially in modelling, simulations, gene expression control, clinical databases, probabilistic modelling and machine learning. 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.

The overall aim of the programme, which is a variant of our successful Bioinformatics MSc, is to cover tools and techniques that help scientists create and validate models, and thereby enhance our understanding of biological and biomedicinal processes.

Our MSc Medical Informatics reflects medical informatics as a truly multidisciplinary field: it is taught by Biosciences at Exeter; the Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry; the Wellcome Biocatalysis Centre and the ESRC Centre for Genomics in Society (EGENIS). Research projects are undertaken in the Wellcome Biocatalysis Centre or the Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry (Postgraduate Health Institute), or among a range of industrial placements.

The programme involves research, development and application of computational tools for storing, organising and analysing biological, molecular and medical data, eg DNA, protein sequences, SNiPs data and micro-array data. The programme is split 50:50 between taught modules and a research project.

The programme will form an ideal grounding for your future career. It has a significant research component which accounts for about half of the programme, as well as professional skills training.

Programme features include:
- world class research regularly published in peer-reviewed papers including Nature, Science and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA
- excellent facilities with a £25 million investment in state-of-the-art laboratories and platform technologies including functional genomic, bioinformatic and analytical infrastructure
- £12 million funding in Research Council grants held by the School of Biosciences; our success rate in BBSRC response mode is above the national average and Biosciences ranks in the top 6 universities for successful NERC awards
- generous scholarships available
- industrial placements encouraged
- degrees designed to deliver high quality research supervision to develop and nurture the scientific potential of all graduates

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Accreditation:

University of Exeter

Tuition & Financial Aid

Financial Aid Offered: Yes