With positive feedback and support from the students last year, the Department of Medicine is pleased to offer the second delivery of MEDI 504B this upcoming January. We are extending the invitation to graduate-level students outside of the Faculty of Medicine – we ask that you kindly share the opportunity with students and faculty in your program who may be interested. For inquiries, please direct them to medi.exptlmed@ubc.ca. Thank you.
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Course Name: MEDI504B Emerging Topics in Experimental Medicine (Machine Learning Analysis in Health Data)
Course Instructor: Dr. Aline Talhouk (Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology)
Date/Time: 2023/24 WT2 Mon & Wed 1-3pm (Location: DHCC); Jan 8th – Feb 21st, 2024
Credit: 1.5
Course Summary: We target students who are interested in how medical care can be transformed by “Big data”. We use real-life clinical use cases to motivate how clinical care can be enhanced with collecting unconventional data of various kinds and feeding such data to machine learning methods to build next-generation clinical tools. However, even with the appropriate data collected, we describe the data science challenges that need to be overcome before the data can be used properly. We give an introduction of the main concepts and methods in biostatistics, machine learning, including unsupervised and supervised methods, and data visualization. Last but not least, we discuss ethical, fairness issues and other potential pitfalls of applying machine learning to medical care.
Pre-requisite: MEDI504A (*For pre-req exemption, please email medi.exptlmed@ubc.ca)
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Best,
Sharon Xu
Experimental Medicine Program Office
Department of Medicine
The University of British Columbia | Vancouver General Hospital
2775 Laurel Street | Vancouver BC | V5Z 1M9 Canada
medi.exptlmed@ubc.ca
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