MRes Informatics (Health Informatics)

Mode of Study: Full-time (12 months) and Part-time (36 months, maximum)

Entry date: January and October (Two intakes per year)

Description:
Health Informatics is a specialist course within the MRes Informatics course. The Health Informatics course will enable participants to enhance their professional skills with applications of emergent technologies in the Health workplace. The course focuses on the principles governing the management of health information and health knowledge; and considers these principles in relation to the roles of patients and of the different professions involved in delivering healthcare (clinical, technical and managerial) in the context of the most important questions affecting healthcare today.

This course is suitable for people who have backgrounds in health, computing and/or information technology or other fields with equivalent experience subject to the University's APEL rules. Participants will have access to expertise and research resources from the University and external communities, such as Primary and Secondary Care Trusts.

Requirements:
To obtain an MRes degree, you are required to complete the following taught modules (each module is worth 20 CATs, i.e. credits), and an individual dissertation project (100 CATs, i.e. credits):

• 2 common core modules
• 2 specialist core modules
• a research dissertation.

Core modules:

• Applied informatics
• Research methods

Optional modules:

• Policy and Practice in Health and Social Care
• Dependable information systems
• Public Health
• Leadership in Healthcare
• Information systems for health services

Descriptions of all the modules can be found at Postgraduate taught modules.