Course overview
Our most reliable knowledge about health, diseases and their treatment comes from high-quality research. This programme develops the skills you need to understand the critical elements in planning, undertaking and analysing research in healthcare.
Develop the vital skills to develop or enhance your career in healthcare and health-related research.
Course Structure
This course will run over 12 months in a full-time-mode. There is also scope to undertake the programme on a part-time and flexible basis. While the exact content may change, here’s what you can expect to study each term. This is based on a full time Masters course.
In term one, Epidemiology Statistics and Research Methods provides an introduction to the basic concepts in statistics and the main epidemiological methods used to identify and quantify disease and associated risks. Alongside this module, Practical Epidemiology and Statistics will teach you how to analyse and evaluate healthcare-related studies and understand the methods used in epidemiological research.