| The Department of Biostatistics came into existence in AIMS on 1st, December, 2005 with the joining of Prof. K.R. Sundaram as Head of the Department. The Department is located in the 8th floor of the Medical college tower.The Department`s Biostatistical Laboratory is located in the 9th floor . |
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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 three or four decades biological , scientific and medical sciences have shown remarkable advances and this has made ‘decision making’, particularly in the fields of health care and medical treatment more and more complex and dependent on the ability of medical and biological scientists to base their decisions on a variety of carefully planned, executed, analysed and interpreted investigations like epidemiological studies, clinical trials, biological assays,  laboratory experiments, operational research and hospital and community based registries.In this context, a medical professional’s training, particularly that of a medical researcher or a 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 to arrive at valid and meaningful conclusions applying appropriate statistical methods. In order to foster the learning of the potentialities of biostatistical applications in health and medical care among the medical researchers and students, it was essential to create an independent Department of Biostatistics as an integral part of this medical and research Institute. AIMS faculty, research staff, and students 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 and interpreting the results. |
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