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Study Details: MSc 3 years part-time online
This flexible online programme will provide you with an excellent grounding in statistics for clinical trials. You will learn about all types of trials, from early to late phase trials with simple to complex interventions, from both a design and analysis perspective. You will also learn to code in R and Stata. Coupled with the experience gained while on-the-job with a company graduates of this programme will be prepared to pursue meaningful careers in the academic field, industry, or further study at PhD level.
Clinical trials, and statistics in clinical trials in particular, is an expanding field of research that offers many exciting career opportunities for graduates. There has been constant progress in biomedical research, including molecularly targeted therapies in cancer, and messenger RNA technologies in vaccines in research.
Statistics is a fundamental discipline in clinical trials. Statisticians ensure that study designs are statistically robust so that research questions can be answered. They carry out statistical tests, and assess uncertainty in the results, to determine whether the data supports the research hypotheses.
Statistics are essential in discovering whether new healthcare interventions improve patients’ lives. Statistics is used at the design stage to compare possible designs, calculate the sample size, and at all trial stages until the final analysis and reporting of results.
A minimum of an upper second-class Bachelor's degree from a UK university or an overseas qualification of an equivalent standard in a related quantitative discipline (e.g. mathematics, statistics, biostatistics, genetics, computational biology). Clinicians and other allied health professionals are required to have a degree (for example, an MBBS) and evidence of having completed quantitative modules, as well as a keen interest in medical statistics.
Potential career opportunities include trial and data management (clinical trials route), clinical trial statistics (statistics for clinical trials route), regulation of clinical trials, and medical writing. Career destinations will include academic trials units, the pharmaceutical industry, contract research organisations, hospitals and government organisations. Students may also use this qualification as a springboard for further study at doctoral level.
Future career prospects will be enhanced on completion of this programme. Students are equipped with the knowledge and skills to become key team members in the design, conduct, analysis, and reporting of high-quality clinical trials.
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