Postgraduate - UnitEPM5015 - Biostatistics practical project - single unit

This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2015 only. For students planning to study the unit, please refer to the unit indexes in the the current edition of the Handbook. If you have any queries contact the managing faculty for your course or area of study.

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6 points, SCA Band 2, 0.125 EFTSL

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Level	Postgraduate
Faculty	Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences
Organisational Unit	Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine
Offered	Alfred Hospital First semester 2015 (Off-campus) Alfred Hospital Second semester 2015 (Off-campus)
Coordinator(s)	Professor Andrew Forbes

Synopsis

This unit will involve students being exposed to a real-life biostatistical problem arising in an academic health research environment or industry. They will be supervised by an experienced biostatistician with a staff or honorary appointment at Monash University. Students will be allocated, or may select, one research project to be involved in, and will be required to make regular contact with the associated health research personnel together with the supervisor. The student will perform an analysis of appropriate complexity for the project and present and interpret the results in a written form to the health researcher and supervisor.

Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this unit, students should be able to:

appreciate the challenges facing a biostatistician in professional practice;
demonstrate strategies for elicitation of pertinent research questions and associated biostatistical issues from a health or medical research project;
collaborate with a medical researcher in devising a strategy for statistical analysis of the research data;
perform data integrity checks and an appropriate statistical analysis;
present the results and their interpretation in a written report suitable for presentation to a clinical research journal.