Q2: What does a medical statistician do?

The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) MSc Medical Statistics web page sums up the skills of a medical statistician:

• select appropriate study designs to address questions of medical relevance
• select and apply appropriate statistical techniques for managing common types of medical data
• use various software packages for statistical analysis and data management
• interpret the results of statistical analyses and critically evaluate the use of statistics in the medical literature
• communicate effectively with statisticians and the wider medical community, in writing and orally through presentation of results of statistical analyses
• explore current and anticipated developments in medical statistics