Graduation Requirements
The program consists of three components:
- Minimum of 32 graduate credits
- Clinical research thesis project culminating in a written thesis
- Public presentation and private defense of the thesis
Core Courses
- Clinical Research in Practice
- Human Subject Research and the Institutional Review Board
- Clinical Research Design
- Principles of Epidemiology
- Epidemiologic Study Design and Analysis
- Biomedical Ethics
- Principles of Biostatistics I: Descriptive Methods and Introduction to Statistical Inference
- Principles of Biostatistics II: Multivariable Regression and Prediction Methods for Diverse Outcomes
- Biomedical Informatics I: Public Health and Clinical Research Informatics
- Biomedical Informatics II: Clinical Data Analytics and the Electronic Health Record
- Fundamentals of Grant Writing for Scientific Research
- Fundamentals of Scientific Manuscript Writing
Thesis Research
Students are required to complete and defend a data-driven thesis that provides a culminating experience and applies the principles and methods learned in the coursework to a real-life research project.
Students complete a minimum of 12 credits of research. Students must enroll in Thesis Research from the spring term of the first year until graduation for two to nine credits per term, depending on their plan of study. While enrolled, students must complete thesis-related milestones and requirements that ensure the successful completion of the research project.
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