COURSE DESCRIPTIONS
I. HPA 475 - Contexts for Clinical Research
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. View full course description.
II. HPA 472 - Clinical Research Methods I
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. View full course description.
III. HPA 477 - Data Collection and Management for Clinical Research
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. View full course description.
IV. HPA 473 - Clinical Research Methods II
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. View full course description.
V. HPA 479 - Evaluating Clinical Interventions
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. View full course description.
