The integration of epidemiologic and biostatistical expertise within one department provides students with the opportunity to acquire a broad perspective while developing expertise in their individual areas of specialisation. The research is carried out during the student's course of study while at the medical school, and focuses the overall effort toward work that improves health care in developing nations. The programme is designed to provide the preclinical student with the unique opportunity of conducting research in an area of special interest to the student. Universidad de Buenos Aires Escuela para Graduados, Facultad de AgronomiaEscuela para Graduados, Facultad de Agronomia Biometria y Mejoramiento Av.
Emphasis is in classic linear models and mixed linear models.
This course is run in conjunction with the School of Science and Engineering and concerns the use of IT in the Biosciences, most notably the use of database technology in the interpretation of DNA sequence information as being produced by the Human Genome Project. The course also covers statistical approaches t experimental design and interpretation. Students completing the postgraduate diploma, successfully, will be able to enter a 14 week full-time research project leading to the award of MSc in Bioinformatics. Students in these programs complete theses conmprising original works in medical research.