The Department of Biostatistics came into existence in Amrita School of Medicine, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences on 1st December 2005 with the joining of Prof. K. R. Sundaram as the Head of the Department.
The Medical Council of India had acknowledged the need to cultivate scientific and logical thought among the doctors, otherwise busy with their clinical and laboratory work. Biostatistics was recognized as the basic tool to achieve this. During the last four decades, biological, scientific and medical sciences have shown remarkable advances and this has made ‘decision making’, particularly in the fields of health care, dependent on the ability of medical and biological scientists to base their decisions on a variety of carefully planned, executed, analyzed and interpreted investigations like epidemiological studies, clinical trials, biological assays, laboratory experiments, operations research and hospital and community based registries. In this context, a medical professional’s training, particularly that of a medical researcher or medical administrator, would be considered incomplete today without a reasonable acquaintance with the potentialities of applications of biostatistical techniques to enable him / her to plan his / her research studies with scientifically and statistically valid designs and minimum sample size and to arrive at valid and meaningful conclusions by applying appropriate statistical methods.
In order to foster the learning of potentialities of biostatistical applications in health and medical care among researchers and students, it was essential to create an independent Department of Biostatistics as an integral part of this medical and research institute. Faculty, research staff and students at Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences interested in doing research work in medicine, biology and public health will have direct access to this department for designing their research protocols, for consultation on the statistical analysis of their data , interpreting the results and in report writing.
The department participates in almost all the academic and research activities of the institute strengthening the medical education and research at the institute with respect to all the relevant areas.
The Department of Biostatistics offers the following services:
TITLE OF THE BOOK: Medical Statistics – Principles & Methods
Medical treatment is becoming more and more dependent on decisions arrived at through a variety of carefully planned and interpreted investigations. Biostatistics is recognized as the basic tool for arriving at these decisions. Today training of a medical research worker as well as a medical practitioner would be considered incomplete without a reasonable acquaintance with biostatistical techniques. The present book is aimed at providing a comprehensive treatment of the subject and to serve as a textbook of biostatistics for graduate and post graduate medical & dental course students, biostatistics/Medical statistics course students and for the students of pharmaceutical, nursing, nano-medical sciences and doctoral degree courses. The book will be especially useful for those engaged in clinical and epidemiological research.
AUTHORS: Prof. K. R. Sundaram AIMS, Kochi; Prof. S. N. Dwivedi, AIIMS, New Delhi; Prof. V. Sreenivas, AIIMS, New Delhi
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CONTENTS OF THE BOOK
INFRASTRUCTURE OVERVIEW
The Biostatistics Department is located in the 8th and 9th floors of the Amrita School of Medicine, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences. The Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences is equipped with excellent IT infrastructure. The department is well equipped with all modern facilities.
COMPUTER LAB
The Department has a well outfitted computer lab with internet connections and latest softwares – SPSS for windows, SAS 9.1.0, Epi Info, nMaster and SYSTAT. It also has online access to most of the biomedical databases and journals. The department computer lab is open to faculty and students of the Institute. The department computer system has been integrated to the institute network system.
CLASS ROOM DETAILS
Modern facilities are available in the class rooms. Teaching is carried out in the department with the aid of latest audio-video equipments.
LIBRARY
Apart from the good collection of text books and journals in the institute’s central library, the department has a small library of text books related to statistics, research methodologies, epidemiology, clinical trials and statistical softwares namely Minitab, SPSS and SAS. The department library collects and supplies study materials for students and faculty in the department.
| Sl. No | Name | Designation | Tel. No | Email ID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Renjitha Bhaskaran | Lecturer | 0484 – 2858186 0484 – 2852678 |
renjitha21339@aims.amrita.edu |
| 2. | Sheejamol V. S. | Senior Lecturer | 0484-2858186 | sheejamolvs@aims.amrita.edu |
| 3. | Anjaly S. Nair | Tutor | 0484-2858186 | anjalysnair@aims.amrita.edu |
| 4. | Greeshma C. Ravindran | Tutor | 0484-2858186 | greeshmacr@aims.amrita.edu |
| 5. | Harsha Hari | Tutor | 0484-2858186 | harshahari@aims.amrita.edu |
| 6. | Niveditha Kartha | Tutor | 0484-2858186 | nivedithakartha@aims.amrita.edu |
| 7. | Ambily K. R. | Secretary | 0484 – 2858186 | researchbiostat@aims.amrita.edu |
| 8. | Biostatistics Laboratory / Class room / Students room | 0484 – 2858186 0484 – 2858187 |