Teaching

Banerjee Lab teaches undergraduate and postgraduate modules across UCL and beyond. 
It has never been more important for researchers and healthcare professionals to have timely access to health data, and be empowered with the skill-set and knowledge to analyse it quickly.

Banerjee Lab aims to equip medical students and healthcare professionals with the skills to access, understand and evaluate research evidence, to use it in decision-making and clinical practice and to cover the broad concepts of digital health and data-driven technology. The combination of evidence-based principles and digital health fosters the ability to not only understand how healthcare is rapidly changing, but also to critically appraise new diagnostics and treatments.

Digital health technology, “big data” including genomics, and novel data analytics such as artificial intelligence (AI), are realities in training, research and clinical practice in the NHS and other health systems. Yet there is limited, if any, tuition in these areas across UK medical schools and postgraduate medical training, regardless of specialty. As well as understanding the huge opportunities within digital health, doctors of tomorrow must be aware of the potential pitfalls and how to ensure patient safety. 

Doctor as Data Scientist Undergraduate Teaching

Led by UCL's Prof. Ami Banerjee, ‘Doctor as Data Scientist’ is a new compulsory module within the MBBS curriculum at UCL, which tackles the lack of training in healthcare data science and digital health technology for medical students and doctors across the UK and beyond.   This innovative course was introduced in September 2019 for all students across all year groups; the first of its kind in the UK. 

Postgraduate Teaching


We teach on the Learning Health Systems in the MSc in Health Informatics.  To capitalise on the tremendous data science opportunities for research and clinical practice across health system silos, clinician scientists need knowledge and expertise in all three spheres of the “learning health system” (science, evidence and care) to navigate the path from science through to healthcare delivery.

Short Courses 



We teach on a programme of short courses at UCL IHI in the rapidly developing field of electronic health records research, spanning a wide range of applications in basic and applied health research.  These courses address the ‘why?’, the ‘what?’ and the ‘how?’ of EHR research and critically evaluate scientific opportunities and challenges, in what is being proposed as a new paradigm in medical research.  The courses are intended for people from a wide range of backgrounds - including health care, epidemiology, biostatistics, health informatics, NHS IT, bioinformatics, genomics and computer science - and at different career stages, from those thinking of doing an MSc or PhD to established researchers.