Also called: Clinical Data Scientist
Builds models from medical data to predict which patients will get sicker, return to the hospital, or need help.
Writes Python code to analyze millions of patient records, builds a model that warns nurses about sepsis hours earlier, and checks the model isn't unfair to any group of patients.
BLS May 2024 (data scientists).
Master's degree, about 6 years after high school. Bachelor's in statistics, computer science, or a quantitative field; a master's or PhD is common.
Ways in: 4-year college, Graduate school, Self-taught. Training cost: $60k – $150k.
Majors to look at: Data Science, Statistics, Computer Science, Biostatistics.
Growing much faster than average (about 34% over 10 years). Among the fastest-growing jobs overall.
Medium risk for 10 years. AI writes much of the code and builds baseline models, squeezing junior roles; designing safe, fair clinical models stays expert work.
Classes: AP Statistics, AP Computer Science A, AP Calculus.
Official data: O*NET occupation 15-2051.
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