Highlights
- Teaches how to study health and disease in human populations
- Integrates the biostatistical basis for analyzing data including interpretation and inferences with study design and types of research questions.
- Hands –on teaching of STATA, the biostatistical software used for data analysis.
- All classes are seminars with about 15 other students.
- Each student has his or her own mentored research project.
- Classes are a mix of medical students (MD-MS), graduate students in the Ph.D. and MSTP programs and physician-scientist MD Scholars from a variety of clinical departments, RN-Ph.D.s and foreign physicians.
- Individualized help as needed is provided including biostatistical and data management support for research projects.
- Required courses leave time to conduct thesis research.
- Ph.D. students can take relevant courses in the medical school.
Clinical Research SUMMER INTENSIVE (#1307) (6 weeks, June, July, Aug,)
Monday Thursday 9 am 12:30 PM
Principles of Epidemiology and Biostatistics I (includes computer lab)
(Course Leaders: Hillel Cohen, DrPH, Michael Mulvihill, DrPH, Aileen McGinn, Ph.D., and Ellie Schoenbaum, MD) (Please note: Takehome final exam due 2 weeks after classes end.)
FALL SEMESTER I (12 weeks, September – December)
Tuesdays and Thursdays 912:30
Epidemiology II / Research Design (2 credits) (Course Leader: Gloria Ho, Ph.D.)
Biostatistics II / Stata Lab (1 credit) (Course Leader: Hillel Cohen, DrPH/Aileen McGinn, Ph.D.)
Research Ethics I (Course Leader: Ruth Macklin, Ph.D.)
SPRING SEMESTER I (12 weeks, February May)
Tuesdays and Thursdays 912:30
Biostatistics III / Stata Lab (3 credits) (Course Leaders: Abdi Negassa, Ph.D., Nan Xue, Ph.D./ Aileen McGinn, Ph.D.)
Advanced Topics in Epidemiology & Biostatistics (3 credits) (Course Leader: Howard Strickler, MD, Melissa Fazzari, Ph.D.)
SUMMER SEMESTER II (6 weeks, July, August)
Tuesdays and Thursdays 912:30
Research Ethics II (Course Leader: Ruth Macklin, Ph.D.)
GRANTWRITING COURSE (Fall (July – Dec)
For Ph.D. students as they approach completion of their dissertation
Thursdays 911:00 with extensive independent work composing Rgrant
Small group tutorial with clinical research faculty leader
Capstone Mock study section
Course leader: Ellie Schoenbaum MD