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DEPARTMENT OF BIOSTATISTICS

About:

At JIPMER, the Department of Medical Biometrics and Informatics was established as an independent full-fledged department in the year 2011. The department has been renamed as Department of Biostatistics in the year 2018.

The department is conducting MSc. Course in Biostatistics and Doctoral Programme in Biostatistics. The department also extends teaching of Research Methodology, Biostatistics and Demography to all Undergraduates; Postgraduate Medical & Paramedical students regularly. The Department continues to provide Statistical consultations and guidance to the postgraduate residents and students, faculty members, PhD scholars and staff in various departments of the institute. The department is also conducting regular training programs in Research Methodology and Biostatistics for the faculty, residents, research scholars and students. The faculty members of the department are also regularly participating as resource persons in the various workshops and CMEs on research methodology, Biostatistics, systematic review and meta-analysis etc. conducted by the national institutes.

The department has launched the Research Leadership Mentoring Program (JRLMP) in the year 2017 for medical faculty to develop high-quality medical research leadership for the institute and at the National level. The department had successfully conducted SEVEN JRLMP programs along with a number of add-on programmes on different topics in medical research.

The Department is fiercely performing methodological research in areas of Bayesian Network modelling, Multivariate methods in Meta-analysis, Multivariate approaches to statistical modelling.

Objectives:

  1. Train institute faculty and students in Research design, Research methods, and statistical methods required for their research projects.
  2. Provide consultation to faculty and students in Research design, Research methods and statistical methods during various stages of their research projects.
  3. Collaborate with faculty and students in their projects where specialized statistical and methodological input are required.
  4. Contribute statistical and methodological inputs to various committees and projects of the institute as and when required.
  5. Contribute to the National level Medical faculty research capacity building.
  6. Work on Biostatistics human resource capacity building.
  7. Methodological development in Research design, statistical methods and analysis methods.

National and International level recognition

Department was the secretariat of

  • Indian Society for Medical Statistics (ISMS) during 2017 to 2022
  • International Biometric Society Indian region (IBS-IR) during 2018 to 2020

National Level Programmes from the Department:

  • Regularly conducting National Level Medical Faculty Research Leadership Mentoring programme (JRLMP - JIPMER Research Leadership Mentoring Programme) in two phases of 5 days each every year since 2017 to mentor medical research leaders at JIPMER and other National level institutions. 
  • Workshop on Clinical Biostatistics for Undergraduate students as part of Connaissance.
  • Workshop on Systematic Review and Meta Analysis for Undergraduate students as part of Connaissance.
  • Summit of young Biostatisticians/Statisticians in Conjunction with the celebration of National Statistics Day.
  • National Workshop on Systematic Review and Meta Analysis for the medical faculty working in National level Institutes.
  • Workshop on Applied Regression Methods for Medical Research.
  • Workshop on Sample Size Estimation.

Institute Level Programmes from the Department:

  • The Department conducts three days PG Orientation Programme on Biostatistics and Scientific Writing for Final year MD/MS and DM/MCh residents, TWICE in every year.
  • First year PG Orientation Programme, TWO times and two batches each time on Research Methodology for First year MD/MS residents, every year.
  • Orientation Program on Research Methodology for First year M.Sc./MPH students of Allied Medical Sciences and Nursing, every year.
  • The orientation programme for JIPMER PhD scholars, every year.
  • Periodically conduct specific module based statistical training for JIPMER faculty.
Last Updated :29-Dec-2025