charing cross and westminster medical school

organisation of statistics teaching

Dr Ken MacRae, Reader in Medical Statistics, at the Department of Medicine, organises the Medical Statistics and Biometry Course at Charing Cross & Westminster Medical School.

undergraduate statistics curriculum

Probability, description, estimation, hypothesis testing, qualitative data – percentages and frequencies, designs, comparison of two means, non-parametric, correlation and regression, clinical trials, sequential analysis, epidemiology.

timing of teaching

First (pre-clinical) year).

method of teaching

Thirteen one-hour lectures reinforce course text book M J Campbell and
D Machin, Medical Statistics. A Commonsense Approach. Wiley, 1990.

Computers are not used in the teaching programme.

number of students

160 students.

teaching staff

Ken MacRae does all the teaching.

assessment

There is no in-course assessment. There is a 1-hour examination in April of the first year.

note

Following the amalgamation with the Westminster Medical School, a new course entitled 'clinical biometry' has been included for the clinical students. This covers the non-epidemiological side of medical statistics (diagnosis and decision-making, measuring illness, clinical trials) and is taught using the remote teaching TV screens in the various hospitals linked to the new Medical School.

name of contact

Dr K MacRae, Reader in Medical Statistics, Charing Cross & Westminster Medical School, The Reynolds Building, St Dunstan's Road, London W6 8RP.

Tel: 0181 846 7186
Fax: 0181 846 7170
email: raak100@uk.ac.lon.cxwms.ux