The Department of Big Data in Medicine offers courses on the topic of Medical Computing Science and is the organisational office for the Medical Computing Science study recommendation. The current courses from WS2025/26 are linked.

Courses

Computing Science/Business Informatics

Bachelor:

• inf528 Introduction to Medical Computing Science*(WS2025/2026)
• inf529 Big Data in Medicine
• inf809 Current Topics in Computing Science II(WS2025/2026)

Master:

• inf524 Medical Basics
• inf525 Medical Computing Science I*(WS2025/2026)
• inf526 Medical Computing Science II
• inf527 Big Data Analytics and Clinical Decision Support (WS2025/2026)
• inf588 Special Topics in Medical Computing Science I
• inf589 Special Topics in Medical Computing Science II
• inf590 Current topics in medical informatics(WS2025/2026)

*Students who have taken the inf528 module in the Bachelor's programme in Computing Science cannot have inf525 Medical Informatics I credited again in the Master's programme in Computing Science.

We supervise Bachelor's and Master's theses, please contact us.

Human Medicine

Epidemiology, Medical Biometry and Medical Computing Science

Year 2:

• Medical Documentation I
• Classification Systems & Terminologies I
• IT systems and healthcare
• Telemedicine, medical software and medical apps

Year 4:

• Medical Documentation II
• Classification systems & terminologies II
• Data protection and confidentiality
• Decision support
• Patient safety

LFC2/3:

• WS2025/26: Real or Fake? Medical Computing Science: From idea to reality

PE5 Workshops:

• Will I be replaced? Potentials and limits of digital medical decision support systems
• Patient safety, cognitive aids and EBM
• Patient Safety & Human Factors
• Patient Safety: Teamwork and Leadership
• OPS - I did it again: Documentation errors and patient safety

We supervise LFC work, please contact us.

Health services research

• gsw400 Quality and risk management in healthcare

Further

Students of other degree programmes, such as Physics, Engineering and Medicine/Computing Science Two-Subject Bachelor's/Engineering of Socio-Technical Systems/... can also receive credit for some of the above-mentioned courses. Please contact us if you have any questions!