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The University of Edinburgh: Medical Informatics

Institution The University of Edinburgh View institution profile
Department School of Molecular, Genetic and Population Health Sciences
Web https://www.ed.ac.uk/studying
Study type Research

Summary

The Medical Informatics PhD programme enables you to engage in cutting-edge research on applications of computational methods to medicine and health care.

Examples include:

  • telehealth, mobile health, and telemedicine

  • computational medicine and simulation

  • applications of artificial intelligence

  • machine learning and natural language processing

  • the analysis of structured and unstructured health care data

  • surgical informatics

  • digital biomarkers and advanced methods of digital phenotyping

  • evaluation of health care technology in real-world settings

  • AI dependability in health care

  • data ethics and digital governance

There are a variety of methods from engineering, informatics, mathematics and social sciences.

The PhD in Medical Informatics is highly interdisciplinary, and its projects have explored application areas such as:

  • ehealth in global health contexts

  • early detection and assessment of neurodegenerative diseases

  • robotic surgery

  • serious mental illnesses

  • biomedicine and biology

  • cardiovascular disease

  • respiratory diseases

  • diabetes

  • multimorbidity

These projects are often in cooperation with other schools, including the Schools of Informatics and Engineering.

Doctor of Philosophy - PhD

Edinburgh University

Edinburgh. Extraordinary futures await.

The University of Edinburgh is one of the world's top universities, consistently ranked in the world top 50, and placed 34th in the QS World University Rankings 2026.

Our position as one of Britain’s leading research universities was reaffirmed by the results of the 2021 Research Excellence Framework (REF). The University of Edinburgh is one of the world’s top research-intensive universities, ranked 4th in the UK for research power (Times Higher Education, Overall Ranking of Institutions), with 90% of our research activity classified as world leading or internationally excellent in the 2021 Research …

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