For the purposes of lobbying for better funding and infrastructure to
support biostatistics in Australia, I am trying to collect some information
on the situation in the UK. I would greatly appreciate anyone letting me
know if they have data readily available on such things as:
1) how many postgraduate programs are available to train medical
statisticians in the UK? (MSc and PhD) (do all such courses require a
mathematical background?)
2) how many students are produced per annum (MSc and PhD)?
3) how many academic positions are there for medical statisticians, funded
by the health budget (whether public or private)? (the latter distinction
is a crude attempt to define "medical statistics" as distinct from applied
statistics more generally)
I would appreciate any and all feedback, including subjective estimates of
the above quantities, and especially by tomorrow (ie. today, when you
receive this over in that other hemisphere!!)
Many thanks in advance,
John Carlin
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John Carlin <[log in to unmask]>
Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics Unit
--RCH Research Institute & University of Melbourne Department of Paediatrics--
Royal Children's Hospital
Parkville, Vic. 3052. AUSTRALIA
Tel. +61-3-9345-6362/6368 Fax +61-3-9345-6000
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