Course Descriptions

HPA 472 - Clinical Research Methods I Sample Syllabus
This course reviews experimental and quasi-experimental study designs and introduces descriptive statistics. Specific topics will include types of study designs, confounding, bias and evaluating study designs. The introduction to descriptive statistics will include basic statistical tests, p-values, confidence intervals, tests of significance, type I and II error, and probability distributions.

HPA 473 - Clinical Research Methods II Sample Syllabus
This course introduces ordinary least squares multivariate regression models, its assumptions and interpretation of outputs and then reviews the implications of departures from these assumptions and surveys more advanced multivariate regression models. Students will learn to manipulate and interpret data, identify and control for systematic error, perform linear and logistic regression and impute missing values. Prerequisite: HPA 472.

HPA 479 - Evaluating Clinical Interventions Sample Syllabus
This course introduces the major approaches used to evaluate clinical interventions. This course will provide an overview of randomized control trials, and of the economic evaluation of clinical interventions. Cost effectiveness and cost benefit analysis will be discussed along with other economic evaluation tools. Prerequisite: HPA 472.

HPA 475 - Contexts for Clinical Research Sample Syllabus
This course will provide an overview of the key institutions and policies within which clinical research takes place. The course includes an overview of the current US healthcare system and policy environment, summarizes epidemiological trends and introduces the ethical and regulatory issues surrounding clinical research.

HPA 477 - Data Collection and Management for Clinical Research Sample Syllabus
This course provides statistical computing and data management concepts; an overview of qualitative research techniques; and an introduction to survey design including sampling strategies, data collection, item and measurement development, and survey analysis. Prerequisite: HPA 472. 

BHIS 509 – Informatics for the Clinical Investigator Sample Syllabus
This course provides the foundation of requisite knowledge of computer and healthcare information sciences for the clinical investigator.

MHPE 535 – Translating Research Into Practice
This course will provide an overview of the current theory and practical reality related to the adoption and use of new scientific findings in patient care and the influence of research on public policy.