Clinical/Health Services Research

MS Program

The Clinical/Health Services Research concentration provides students with a rigorous understanding of the following areas:

 fundamentals of epidemiology and biostatistics;

 quantitative techniques in the assessment of the outcomes of medical care;

 historical and contemporary theories in decision making;

 decision and cost effectiveness analyses;

 and clinical guidelines, patient satisfaction, and survey methods.

Curricula

Summer

ECS 100: Inferential Methods and Systemic Review: Part 1

ECS 111: Critical Issues in Health and Health Care

ECS 140: Epidemiology and Biostatistics

ECS 176: MS Tutorial Series 1

Fall

ECS 102: Inferential Methods and Systemic Review: Part 2

ECS 117: Continual Improvement of Health Care

ECS 140: Epidemiology and Biostatistics (continued from summer term)

ECS 154: Social and Behavioral Determinants of Health

ECS 177: MS Tutorial Series 2

Winter

ECS 120: Studying Patients’ Decisions

ECS 122: Survey Research Methods and Principles

ECS 141: Epidemiology/Biostatistics 2

ECS 178: MS Tutorial Series 3

Choice of Electives

Spring

ECS 119/121: Decision and Cost-Effectiveness Analysis

ECS 146/147: Advanced Methods in Health Services Research or ECS 245: Advanced Statistics and Methods

ECS 179: MS Tutorial Series 4

ECS 197: Directed Research

Choice of Electives

Class Size and Structure
encourages close student-faculty relationships, and a multi-layered, rich exchange of views between students of varying ages and backgrounds.

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