Is medical statistics for you?

The Master of Medical Statistics program provides graduates with the skills to use statistical methods to investigate problems in health and medicine. Read more ...

What you will study

The program will provide a sound mathematically-based grounding in statistical methods, with a strong emphasis on applications in all areas of health and medical research. Read more ...

Your future

This is a well recognised and highly regarded national training program in biostatistics. This program will provide you with the required specialised skills for employment as a biostatistician. Read more ...

Is medical statistics for you?

The Master of Medical Statistics program provides graduates with the skills to use statistical methods to investigate problems in health and medicine. Statistics is one of the essential requirements for high quality medical research, and is vital to public health research. The programs are designed to provide depth of knowledge in the application of statistical methods to the analysis of health related data.

Graduates will develop a strong capacity to work effectively as integral members of a collaborative team to investigate problems in health and medicine.

The program fills the gap between current programs in public health and epidemiology (which train users of biostatistical methods, not professional biostatisticians), and general statistics courses (which do not cater to the increasingly diverse and specialised needs of health research).

What you will study

The program will provide a sound mathematically-based grounding in statistical methods, with a strong emphasis on applications in all areas of health and medical research.

The courses are designed to provide the background in mathematical and statistical theory to those without a first degree in mathematics or statistics. The compulsory unit in epidemiology introduces those unfamiliar with research in population health to the basic concepts and methods of investigation used in public health and clinical medicine.

Graduates with a health sciences background, e.g. a masters degree in public health or clinical epidemiology, will gain more sophisticated statistical skills, while those from a mathematical background will further their understanding of health issues and the application of statistics in the field.

Sample course areas:

• epidemiology
• data management and statistical computing
• statistical Inference
• randomised controlled trials
• linear models
• survival analysis
• longitudinal and correlated data.

Your future

This is a well recognised and highly regarded national training program in biostatistics. This program will provide you with the required specialised skills for employment as a biostatistician. There is a severe shortage of adequately trained biostatisticians nationally and internationally, across academic, research, government and industry sectors. Completion of this program will enhance your chances of employment as a biostatistician in a variety of different settings:

• faculty appointments at tertiary institutions
• research academic or research fellow in clinical or public health focused research institutions or undertaking statistical analysis
• evaluation roles in local, state or national government health departments, private industry or non-profit organisations.