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In the Autumn quarter of 2020, this class will be offered online.
This course is designed to prepare you to pose and answer meaningful clinical questions using routinely collected healthcare data. The practical skills you will learn in this class will be applicable to any task involving data manipulation and analysis. The course will use real, de-identified, large size patient datasets for home work projects associated with the course. To have the best learning experience, you will need to be proficient in the R language.
Upon completing this course, you should be able to:
In the past years, the pre-COVID offering was a highly interactive, in person experience. We wish to preserve as much of the learning experience as possible in a virtual setting. Therefore, to ease the transition of converting the class content for offering on Zoom, enrollment in 2020 will be limited to graduate students in the Biomedical Informatics (BMI) Program.
I have chosen to do this so that we can maintain an effective learning experience for those students for whom this is a required class. If you are not a BMI student, thank you for understanding. I look forward to meeting you in the regular offering of the class next Autumn.
The syllabus for 2020 is here
– 2020 Teaching team: Nigam Shah, Alison Callahan, Conor Corbin, Minh Nguyen, Erin Craig