Digital Healthcare – (M.Sc.)

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Core Modules (All Routes)

All students on both the Engineering and Clinical routes take the following five compulsory core modules.

• Biomedical Engineering

• Evaluation and Research Methods

• eHealth Technologies

• Contemporary Topics in Digital Healthcare

• Informatics & Information/Communication Technologies

Additional Route-Specific Core Modules

An additional three compulsory modules depend on the route taken (Engineering or Clinical)

Engineering Core Modules

• MATLAB Programming

• Biomedical Signal Processing

• Introduction to Physiological Modelling

Clinical Core Modules

• Public Understanding of Health and Disease

• Clinical Knowledge Management

• System Modelling for Value-based Healthcare

Elective Modules

In addition to the compulsory core modules listed above, you must select sufficient elective modules to bring the total number of modules attended to ten. Students on the Engineering Route can select any of the Clinical Cores Modules. Similarly students on the Clinical Route can select their electives from the Core Engineering Route Modules. You can also choose from Computer Programming, Computational Intelligence Techniques and Information Modelling and Systems Analysis.

Project

The project is worth 50% of the final grade and supports you in developing your personal research skills. For those students wishing to obtain a Master’s degree, the dissertation project will address a current research topic or the evaluation of an emerging technology or method in digital healthcare. For example:

• Developing new neuroimaging diagnostic and evaluation tools for neurosensory rehabilitation.
• The use of monitoring and communication devices supporting people in their own homes.
• The development of new platforms to measure, analyse and communicate health data to support healthcare and promote wellbeing.
• Meeting the information and training needs of clinicians and healthcare technologists.
• Improving communication between, and the targeting of, activities by health and social care teams.

Expert, highly research-active staff will support students by helping them find a relevant topic to study, draft a project proposal, obtain ethical permission where necessary and provide appropriate supervision for their project. Often the research topic will form part of the existing research areas already active within the IDH, ensuring that the student is working within an existing research team and environment and has access to the resource of the International Digital Laboratory and wider University. The IDH also has close links with many local and distant healthcare organisations and companies, small and large, which are keen to provide projects and co-supervise students.

Learning Style

The course will be taught using a flexible framework, allowing modules to be chosen from one of two specialisms (engineering or clinical) to suit the participant’s background and best meet their professional development needs.

A multi-disciplinary group problem-based learning approach is used throughout the MSc. This means that, after an introduction to the core subjects of each topic area, students will be posed a series of challenges and questions to work on in small multi-disciplinary groups. Each group will be supervised by experienced teachers, and have access to all relevant data, IT, devices and other resources, culminating in an individual report or presentation. By working in multi-disciplinary groups across the clinical and engineering foci, all students will gain in depth understanding of the design constraints seen from both clinical and engineering perspectives. This provides unique learning and generic skills development opportunities, not offered anywhere else.

Each module will usually last one week.

Accreditation

The University of Warwick accredits all of our courses, along with professional membership bodies approving many of them.

Accredited Courses

MSc Engineering Business Management – accredited by The Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply.
MSc Supply Chain and Logistics Management – accredited by The Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply.

MSc Cybersecurity and Management – accreditation expected in the near future.

The University Of Warwick is currently in the later stages of discussions with (ISC)² regarding the formation of an Academic Alliance. The Academic Alliance concerns the delivery of the Official (ISC)² CISSP Compact Review Seminar & Certification Examination to the MSc Cyber Security Management students at the University, allowing them to benefit from both academic as well as professional certification excellence.

Funding details

In 2012, WMG will be awarding up to £500,000 in scholarships and bursaries to students on our full-time MSc programmes. Note that these awards apply only to students who will commence their studies Autumn 2012.

Special Bursaries for students from Latin America, Iran, Turkey and Syria

If you are deemed for fee purposes to be from a Latin American country, Iran, Turkey or Syria then you will automatically be awarded these tuition fee bursaries. There is no need to apply for these awards and there is no deadline, they are given to all eligible offer-holders who are from these areas. Note that the Turkish and Syrian awards are dependent on your final GPA as awarded by a recognised Turkish / Syrian Institution. If you are a Turkish or Syrian national but studied at undergraduate level at a University outside your home country, a judgement will be made by us on the GPA equivalence. These awards will be paid towards tuition fees only.

Scholarship awards

The following competitive scholarships are available for offer holders who will start in 2012. There is no need to apply for these awards, all eligible students will be considered, however you must have an offer from us and have accepted it by the end of June 2012. Applications will be considered during the first two weeks of July and winners notified soon afterwards. Winners will be selected on the basis of academic merit.These awards will be paid towards tuition fees only and are offered only to self-funded students who commence studies in October 2012.

Early Acceptance Scheme

Students paying the overseas tuition fee rate who are offered a place our courses can request a place on the Early Acceptance Scheme (EAS). Once accepted onto the scheme you must pay a £500 deposit which is credited to your tuition fee account. This deposit must be paid within 4 weeks of acceptance onto the scheme. In return, WMG will give you a £1000 discount on your overall fees.

The £500 deposit is non-refundable, so we will not repay the deposit if you subsequently choose not to study with us, or fail to meet the conditions of your offer. Only join the scheme if you are absolutely sure you intend to study at WMG starting autumn 2012. We recommend that students on conditional offers DO NOT apply for this scheme.

You must have an offer of a place from WMG before applying for the scheme.

• We will not accept EAS applications or deposit payments from a third party.
• Places on the scheme are very strictly limited with places allocated on a first-come-first-served basis.
• There are a total of 80 places available for 2012. We expect the scheme to fill very quickly so we recommend you apply as soon as possible.
• The scheme is only available to students who have offers for the full-time MSc courses run by WMG in the UK, it is not transferrable to other courses at Warwick.
• The Early Acceptance Scheme is not available to students paying home/EU fees.

Other scholarships and Funding Information

• Panasonic Trust - Royal Academy of Engineering award £8000 scholarships for UK citizens who have an Engineering degree (or related disciplines). More information is available from the RAE website.
• Chevening - British Council scholarships can cover the full costs of study and are offered in 150 countries. More information is available from the Chevening website.
• WMG will submit nominations for consideration of two students for the joint Warwick & ANFCT Scholarships. You must have accepted an offer from us by 30th April 2012. Note that these awards are available to eligible students in all departments at Warwick and are not specific to WMG.
• WMG and The Central Bank of India (CBI) have an agreement that all Indian students applying for one of WMG's Masters courses can now take advantage of fast-track loan arrangements provided by the CBI. This will ensure a swift and speedy response to applications regarding loans to support MSc study in WMG at the University of Warwick. For further information, please contact our regional representative in India: C. Venuprasad, venu.prasad@wmg.warwick.ac.uk

Please note that students on WMG's taught MSc programmes who commence studies October 2012 are not eligible for the Commonwealth Shared Scholarships (formerly known as DFIDSS).