Overview

Precision medicine is an area of growing importance globally. It integrates genome and biomarker data with big data from healthcare to target safe, effective treatments to individual patients. Understanding why individuals differ in susceptibility to disease and response to treatment has clear benefits, as the global Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted.

You’ll access anonymised real healthcare data linked to genome and clinical imaging data, and use expertise from renowned biomedical scientists to gain applied skills and knowledge in the field.

This unique bioresource, linked to medical records at the University of Dundee , has played a major role in globally significant research and continues to impact our understanding of Covid-19.

Throughout the Health Data Science for Applied Precision Medicine programme from University of Dundee, you’ll learn by doing. This will involve:

examining principles and current practice of precision medicine and its clinical benefits
gaining data management and governance skills for research use of medical data using R statistical software
exploring epidemiology and population genetics and how genes influence drug response and side effects (pharmacogenetics)

Careers

Precision medicine is a multidisciplinary subject and therefore this course is designed to be flexible for a wide range of backgrounds. This includes healthcare professionals wishing to gain a broad base for practical experience in precision medicine as well as bioinformaticians and computer scientists interested in applying their skills in this area.

Whatever your background, you’ll develop a comprehensive understanding of the field. You will enhance your capabilities in disseminating research work as well as develop transferable skills in critical thinking, and applying knowledge to problems and systems that are relevant to your current or future place of work. You will understand the process for successful application of precision medicine in a healthcare system.

Roles in the field include lab-based biomedicine and computational scientists, geneticists, bioinformaticians, data analysts, and clinicians. There are also opportunities for commercial development roles.

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Programme Structure

Courses include:

Machine learning and artificial intelligence methods in healthcare
Epidemiology
Precision Medicine: Practices
Applied Health Data Science for Precision Medicine Research
Research Methods
Advanced Applied Health Data Science

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Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 12 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2026-09-16 00:00:00
- Apply before 2026-07-31 00:00:00

Language

English

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6.5

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Credits

180 alternative credits

Delivered

On Campus

Campus Location

Dundee, United Kingdom

Disciplines

Health Sciences Data Science & Big Data View 932 other Masters in Health Sciences in United Kingdom

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Academic requirements

GPA

Upper Second Class

English requirements

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General requirements

A UK Upper Second-Class Honours (2:1) degree OR a UK Medical degree
Your degree should be in a relevant scientific discipline (for example biological or medical sciences), or an appropriate health professional qualification such as medicine and allied health professions.
All prospective students will need to undergo a technical interview to ensure they have the necessary background knowledge to undertake the course.

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Tuition Fees

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27900 GBP / year

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12600 GBP / year

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Additional Details

England, Wales, Northern Ireland, and Republic of Ireland: £ 12,600 per year of study

Living costs

Dundee

United Kingdom

787 - 1494 GBP / month

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Funding

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