Can you organise a team full of different skills? Do you have a knack for strategy and statistics? Do you have a statistical/analytical degree and want to do your Master’s? If so, then this Medical Statistician apprenticeship might be for you.
What does a Medical Statistician do?
You can see the role of a Medical Statistician across the medical field, including pharmaceuticals, healthcare, biotechnology, and many more. Their role is to provide statistical leadership to a multi-disciplinary team. If you had this job, you would be responsible for ensuring your team conducts research studies as designed. To ensure that results and conclusions will be accepted by governing bodies, it would be your job to make sure projects are analysed, interpreted and reported according to regulations so that. The research your team might carry out could range from many things, including potential new treatments or healthcare interventions.
If the prospect of forwarding medical science wasn’t enough, the starting salary of a Medical Statistician can be from £35,000 p.a.
A 2.2 degree in any numerical-based subject is all you need to qualify for the Level 7 Medical Statistician. Earn your Master’s degree without owing a single penny!
Key responsibilities of a Medical Statistician apprentice
With this medical apprenticeship, you’ll have many responsibilities in this role, one being to collect data from your team and analyse whether or not new treatments/interventions are beneficial to patients. When you’ve collected enough evidence (both good and bad), you’ll send it to a regulatory body for review. The aim? For the research to be officially approved with the possibility of public distribution.
Other jobs would include;
- Communicating with regulatory bodies, ethics committees, senior management, scientists and doctors, clinical teams, project managers and medical writers.
- Writing/reviewing statistical protocols
- Reviewing and then inputting into study collection materials.
- Statistical analysis planning.
- Helping with grant applications.
- Create summaries in addition to graphical representations while performing analyses of data.
- You’ll display statistical leadership skills while overviewing a study to your team and managing it.
- You’ll also keep up-to-date with current and new methodological developments within the industry.
This seems like a lot, but don’t worry your apprenticeship agency will prepare you for this. You won’t be left in the deep end.
What you’ll learn
With this Medical Statistician Apprenticeship, you will learn to meet the standards of companies like Pfizer, AstraZeneca, GSK and Worldwide Clinical Trails, to name a few. You’ll learn about;
- Statistical knowledge of methods commonly used in medical research.
- Project management techniques and strategies.
- Strategic Approaches to Risk and Compliance.
- The structure and function of a multi-disciplinary team and the role of the Medical Statistician within it.
- The key regulatory authorities.
- Interpreting, applying and complying with legislation, statutory frameworks, professional codes of practice and guidance, including quality control.
- Programming statistical packages, such as SAS®, R, and other appropriate software.
- Identifying issues that can affect projects and finding solutions.
- Contributing to the wider statistical community (including your own organisation). Sharing knowledge, such as peer review, authorship and co-authorship of papers for publication or presenting at conferences.
All these things will have to be documented over the apprenticeship period before accumulating them into two bodies of work.
End Point Assessment
Although the apprenticeship has no formal examinations, you’ll instead have two assessments.
Assessment 1 is work based project report accompanied by a presentation and questioning afterwards.
Assessment 2 is a professional interview supported by a portfolio of evidence.
An Independent Assessor will mark you on these to give you an overall grade.
Conclusion
As you can see a Level 7 Medical Statistician apprenticeship is perfect for achieving your Master’s degree in a debt way. Furthermore, it’ll also give you an edge over other students by giving you sought-after industry experience. It could also lead to a permanent job at your place of work, and you might even be able to skip the entry-level salary!
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