UIC
School of Public Health Student Handbook 2008-2009
To print
the curricular table for the HPA
MS, please download
here(pdf)
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Comprehensive MS Curriculum
TOTAL
Credit Hours = minimum of 48 semester credit
hours (SH)
http://www.uic.edu/sph/hpa.htm
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School-Wide
Core
Requirements |
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EPID 403
Introduction to Epidemiology-Principles and
Methods (3 SH)
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BSTT 400
Biostatistics I (4 SH)
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Required Non-Credit Training:
(http://tigger.uic.edu/depts/ovcr/research/protocolreview/irb/
education/initial.shtml) |
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HIPAA Research
101 (non-credit)
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Investigator
Training 101 (non-credit)
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MS Thesis Research Requirement:*
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IPHS 598 Research
in Public Health Sciences - MS (16 SH)
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SUB-TOTAL: 23 semester credit hours
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Divisional
Core
Requirements |
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EPID 406
Epidemiologic Computing (3 SH)
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BSTT 401
Biostatistics II (4 SH)
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HPA 460
Introduction into the Economics of Health and
Healthcare (2 SH)
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CHSC 447 Survey
Planning and Design (3 SH)
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CHSC 401
Behavioral Sciences and Public Health (3 SH)
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PMAd 573/ HPA 573
(cross-listed) Principles of Economic
Evaluations of Health Care Interventions (3 SH)
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MHPE 535/ HPA 535
(cross-listed) Translating Research into
Clinical Practice (3 SH)
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MHPE 512/ HPA 512
(cross-listed) Ethics in Clinical Research (1
SH)
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MHPE 534/ HPA 534
(cross-listed) Research Design and Grant
Writing (2 SH)
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HPA 590 Grant
Writing (1 SH)
SUB-TOTAL: 25 semester credit hours
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Electives
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All students
must complete a minimum of 1 semester hour
of electives chosen with the aid of an advisor.
SUB-TOTAL: minimum of 1 semester credit hour
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Other
Recognized Interdisciplinary Concentrations
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Interdepartmental Graduate Concentration in
Survey Research Methodology http://www.srl.uic.edu/gcsrm.htm
Interdepartmental Graduate Concentration in
Women's Health http://www.uic.edu/nursing/forms/WHConcentrationWebInfo.pdf
Graduate Concentration in Women's Studies http://www.uic.edu/depts/wsweb/graduate/index.htm
Global Health
http://www.uic.edu/sph/global/index.shtml
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TOTAL
HOURS: |
Minimum
of 48 semester credit hours
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Health Policy and Administration (HPA): MS Learning Objectives
In addition to the school-wide learning objectives, for students pursuing the MS degree in Health Policy
and Administration, the following objectives apply:
- Apply quantitative and/or qualitative analyses to the study of their research question.
- Identify and analyze the literature or literatures that are relevant to their research.
- Design, defend and implement a research protocol addressing their research question.
- Write a report of their research that is publishable quality, either as a submission to a refereed
journal or as a traditional thesis.
General MS Curricular Policies: See http://www.uic.edu/sph/shandbook_ms.htm
Mentored Research
The
mentored research experience is the culminating
educational experience for the Concentration in Clinical
Research leading to the required master’s thesis.
Students will have to integrate the knowledge gained
through the courses and workshops they had attended in
the first year of the program in conducting the research
project.
During the first year of the program, the Program Director and each student’s mentoring committee, including their primary mentor, typically in their home department, will work with him/her to refine the research plan for the second year. At the beginning of the summer between the first and second year, the student will submit a research plan and identify the members of the proposed—potentially reformulated—mentoring committee for the review and approval of the Research Training Committee, and the Graduate College (see below for governance structure). The finalized research must be reviewed by the Research Training Committee and modified, if necessary, prior to the beginning of the second year. It is our intention through this iterative process to the appropriateness of the membership of each student’s mentoring committee and of the research question they intend to study; once approved the mentoring committee will have the primary responsibility to assess the student’s performance in their research. Students will meet with their committee chair monthly, or more frequently if needed. They will meet with other members as needed. Each mentoring committee must review the student’s progress at the end of the Fall and Spring semesters and will grade the thesis at the end of the year. The research paper will be a publishable paper summarizing the mentored research the student conducted. “Publishable” in this context is intended to define the quality and style of the paper rather than a requirement that it actually be published at the time of program completion. Each student’s thesis committee will assess whether the thesis is of “publishable” quality based on their experience as authors and reviewers. This will be specified in the student handbook. Students will also write a grant proposal following from their mentored research.
In addition, the students will attend a grant writing workshop monthly during the second year of the program. In the workshop, students will start by formulating a research idea that is an extension of their mentored research study. Trainees will learn how to draft effective sections of a grant proposal, starting with the “specific aims,” through “background and significance,” “preliminary studies,” and “research design and methods.” They will develop a budget, IRB submission, evaluate alternative and complementary therapies, review the issues raised by the inclusion of women, minorities and children in clinical trials, technology transfer, molecular diagnostics and animal models. The class will conclude with a mock study section analysis of the proposals generated by the class. The intention is that the grants written by the trainees will be submitted by the end of the training program for subsequent funding.
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