Degree Requirements (PhD)
The PhD program consists of a minimum of 10 half-year courses, oral defence of a dissertation proposal, and completion of a dissertation and its oral defence. Students meet annually with their supervisor and the PhD Program Director to review their progress and to plan course work and other activities for the following year.
Students must have knowledge of the Canadian health care system and basic research and statistics skills or they will be required to take additional courses.
PhD students will be required to complete an intermediate statistics course while in the program. A prerequisite for successful completion of this course is familiarity with introductory statistics up to and including regression. All students are strongly advised to take an applied introductory statistics course over the summer, or review the material independently.
Course exemptions will only be offered to those students who have successfully completed graduate level courses at accredited universities, and if no degree was awarded for completion of those courses.
Comprehensive Courses
Each specialization has a Comprehensive Course tailored to assess their students' ability to demonstrate a high level of competency in the area of specialization and satisfactory evidence of proficiency in statistics and research methods.
| Compulsory Courses | |
|---|---|
| HAD5301H | Introduction to Clinical Epidemiology and Health Care Research |
| HAD5307H | Introduction to Applied Biostatistics |
| MSC1060H | Biostatistics for Health Sciences |
| HAD5311H | Clinical Epidemiology and Health Care Research Comprehensive Course |
| Recommended Courses | |
|---|---|
| HAD5302H | Measurement in Clinical Research |
| HAD5303H | Controlled Clinical Trials |
| HAD5304H | Clinical Decision Making and Cost Effectiveness |
| HAD5305H | Evidence-Based Guidelines |
| HAD5306H | Introduction to Health Care Research Methods Using Health Administrative Data |
| HAD5308H | Evidence Synthesis: Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis |
| HAD5309H | Non-Experimental Design for the Clinical Researcher |
| HAD5310H | Pragmatic Issues in Conduct of Controlled Trials |
| HAD5730H | Economic Evaluation Methods for Health Service Research |
| HAD5760H | Advanced Health Economics and Policy Analysis (or equivalent) |
| JNH5000H | Measurement of Patients' Preferences in Health Care Decision Making |
| Elective Course Options | |
|---|---|
| HAD5011H | Canada's Health Care System |
| HAD5312H | Decision Modelling for Clinical Policy and Economic Evaluation |
| HAD5313H | Advanced Design and Analysis Issues in Clinical Trials |
| HAD5314H | Applied Bayesian Methods in Clinical Epidemiology and Health Care Research |
| HAD6360H | Research Internship The internship (practicum) is intended to provide students in Clinical Epidemiology and Health Care Research with practical experience in an approved Clinical Research environment under the close supervision of a senior Clinical Epidemiologist. Please Note:
Clin Epi Handbook - further details |
| HAD6361H | Optional Research Practicum in Clinical Epidemiology |
Plus other IHPME courses or extra departmental courses as approved by the Director and course instructor. | |
Dissertation
The purpose of the dissertation is to undertake an original theory-driven investigation characterized by rigorous methodology and capable of making a significant contribution to knowledge about the subject under study. The dissertation supervisor must have their primary graduate appointment in the Institute of IHPME. The dissertation process includes:
- Preparation and oral defence of a dissertation proposal
- Preparation of the written dissertation
- Presentation and oral defence of the dissertation.