Scientific Writing and Presentation in the Health Sciences

2 credits · Graduate School

This introductory course prepares first-year graduate students in biostatistics for effective participation in interdisciplinary research teams in the health sciences and serves as the foundation for the program’s advanced collaboration course. Emphasizing the central role of biostatisticians in team science, the course focuses on developing the habits of mind and communication skills essential to professional biostatistical practice and scholarship. Students learn to critically engage with clinical and statistical literature; contribute to grant proposals; write structured and unstructured abstracts; and prepare clear, reproducible analysis reports. Training also includes the development of effective slide and poster presentations and strategies for navigating authorship, roles, and responsibilities within collaborative research teams. Attention is given to career pathways in academia, industry, and government. Throughout, emphasis is placed on rigorous statistical reasoning, transparency, reproducibility, and the ethical conduct of collaborative scientific research. This course is open to biostatistics students only; for students in other programs, instructor permission is required to enroll. Prerequisite: BIOS 6311. [2]