The Master’s in Medicine with Industrial Specialisation offers a mix of courses and projects that you will write in groups with your fellow students. The courses are conducted in English and ensure that you gain basic knowledge within the main areas of the Master's – Biomedicine, Translational Medicine and Medical Market Access. This gives you a good foundation for combining your skills within these three subjects in the context of specific issues and your professional interests. The projects centre on practice-oriented problems and create the framework for you and your fellow students to delve into the exact area you are passionate about. During the final year of the Master's, you do not take courses but instead only do project work. If you wish, you can write your project within a research environment at Aalborg University, during a study stay at a university hospital abroad or in collaboration with a company.

As a graduate in Medicine with Industrial Specialisation, your competences will depend on the profile you have chosen during your Master’s programme.  
Translational Medicine gives you the skills to take part in every step from the translation of laboratory discoveries to new methods and testing of methods within diagnostics, the identification of new biomarkers, the prevention and treatment of diseases, and the design and evaluation of new pharmacology. You will be able to assess the safety and effectiveness of medicines and medical devices and participate in the planning, practical execution, completion and evaluation of clinical trials.  

Biomedicine gives you the skills to analyse disease processes and molecular and cellular events in pathophysiology. You will become an expert at designing diagnostic or analytical protocols with a focus on quality assurance, as well as at conducting laboratory experiments and animal studies based on key technologies in biomedical research. You also gain experience in analysing and interpreting molecular data such as DNA sequences, mRNA and proteins using bioinformatics tools. 
Medical Market Access gives you the skills to participate in all parts of the market-access process for both medicine, medical devices and IT solutions. You will also be able to contribute to research and development projects in the healthcare sector, carry out analyses and assess economic and impact studies as well as market and purchasing insights. This gives you a strong foundation for planning and implementing quality development projects, among other things.

With a Master's in Medicine with Industrial Specialisation, you can apply for jobs within the field of healthcare in both the private and public sectors. In the private sector, graduates from the programme primarily work with the development, testing and sale of pharmaceuticals and other treatments or with the setup of laboratory solutions. Most privately employed graduates work in the pharmaceutical industry. In the public sector, you can work within research, clinical laboratory work, health economics, and the supervision and control of the healthcare system and connected suppliers.

In the first semester, you take a course on scientific methods and communication. In addition, you have the choice of two groups of electives. One allows you to take modules and do a project on advanced signal processing and stochastic processes, and the other is modules on interoperability in clinical information systems and decision support.  

In the second semester, you work on machine learning and physiological modelling, and you can choose electives on either image analysis or rehabilitation technology. The theme of the project is either biomedical signal processing and analysis or clinical information systems and models.  

The theme in the third semester is biomedical research collaboration. You can choose to go abroad to collaborate with an international research group, or you can stay in Denmark and collaborate with a partner in the industry or with a national research group.   

In the final fourth semester, you write your Master’s thesis. 

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