Required (course and thesis-based options):
HIS 9201 - Quantitative Research Methods in Health Sciences: This course provides the skills and practice necessary to design methodologically rigorous research studies and to determine the internal validity of studies from the health literature. Topics include evaluation of the effectiveness of interventions, diagnostic tests, risk factors for development of disease, disease prognosis and screening programs. A statistics co-requisite may be required for students without prior research methods and statistics courses. Cross-listed with HS 9601.
HIS 9241 - Interdisciplinary Issues in Health Information: This course will provide an overview of issues in the creation, provision and retrieval of information in the health care system. A focus will be on describing the ‘actors’ in the health area, their information behaviour, and consideration of how services provided by information professionals and other information sources meet these needs. We will also consider, taking a critical approach, emerging issues in health care generally and health information specifically, and how these influence and are influenced by broader ethical, social, political, legal and economic considerations. Cross-listed with LIS 9841.
HIS 9200 - Health Informatics: The course will cover fundamental theories and principles of health informatics including: an overview of the health care system, computer systems, communications and information theory, data types, data acquisition, data standards, data quality and data uses and users. The course will introduce the students to the wide range of health informatics applications and uses of computers in health care with emphasis on various clinical support and clinical information systems and on the electronic health record and its achievability. Cross-listed with PATH 9100.
HIS 9223 - Perspectives in Knowledge Translation: This course will examine the multidisciplinary theoretical perspectives related to knowledge translation, as well as explore the conditions under which some knowledge translation interventions are successful (or not). Leading-edge topics in the field, such as the appropriate definition “evidence”; knowledge brokers; networks; and the role of non-governmental organizations in knowledge translation will also be discussed. Cross-listed with HS 9623.
Required - thesis option only (one of the following selected according to thesis topic and methods):
HS 9602 - Qualitative Research Methods in Health Sciences: This course provides a comprehensive introduction to the qualitative paradigm and its current and potential applications in health and rehabilitation sciences. The philosophical assumptions that form an integral part of the qualitative paradigm will be examined, as will the assumptions underlying various qualitative schools of inquiry (e.g., grounded theory, phenomenology, ethnography, action research, narrative).
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One Advanced Quantitative Research Methods course: Course are available to develop skills in specific quantitative design and analysis techniques, e.g., Linear Regression; ANOVA , etc.