Thesis-based MSc
Comprising 3.0 Full Course Equivalents (FCE) and a thesis
Thesis Requirements:
Completion of a research thesis of acceptable quality and its oral defense.
Program Requirements:
Students meet annually with their supervisor and the Program Director to review the students’ progress and to plan course work and other activities for the next year.
Course Requirements:
- A minimum of 6 half-year courses (3.0 FCEs)
- Two courses (1.0 FCE) must be in research methods or statistics
- To be eligible for the minimum program, students must have knowledge of the Canadian health care system and basic research and statistics skills. Students whose preparation is insufficient in these areas will be required to take additional courses.
- Transfer of maximum 1 FCE credits (two half-courses) will be allowed only to those students who have successfully completed graduate level courses at accredited universities, and if no degree was awarded for completion of those courses.
Canada’s Health System and Health Policy
Economic Evaluation Methods for Health Services Research
Quantitative Methods in HSR I
Quantitative Methods in HSR II
Advanced Health Economics and Policy Analysis
Health Economics Graduate Seminar Series
One elective (0.5 FCE) course from:
Students may enrol in elective courses offered through IHPME, or other departments within the University. Please discuss with your Emphasis Lead. If approved, contact the course instructor. If given permission to enrol in the course, complete an Add/Drop form and submit to the HSR Program Assistant.
Canada’s Health System and Health Policy
Evaluation and Research Design in Health Informatics
Three elective courses (1.5 FCE) from:
Cognitive, Social & Information Science Theory in Health Informatics Research
Students may enrol in elective courses offered through IHPME, or other departments within the University. Please discuss with your Emphasis Lead. If approved, contact the course instructor. If given permission to enrol in the course, complete an Add/Drop form and submit to the HSR Program Assistant.
Canada’s Health System and Health Policy
Comparative Health Systems and Policy
Three courses (1.5 FCE) from:
Historical, Ethical and Philosophical Foundations of Public Health
Diagnosing Corruption in the Health Sector
Or other health policy research courses as appropriate, for example:
History of International Health
International Human Rights Law and Global Health
One elective course (0.5 FCE) from:
Students may enrol in elective courses offered through IHPME, or other departments within the University. Please discuss with your Emphasis Lead. If approved, contact the course instructor. If given permission to enrol in the course, complete an Add/Drop form and submit to the HSR Program Assistant.
Canada’s Health System and Health Policy
Introduction to Theories of Organizational Behaviour and Applications to the Health Care Sector
Three courses (1.5 FCE) from:
Knowledge Transfer and Exchange: The Art and Science of Making Research Relevant and Increasing Utilization
Tools for Implementation Science
Intermediate Level Qualitative Research for Health Services and Policy Research
Mixed Methods in Health Services Research
Quantitative Methods in HSR I
Introduction to Qualitative Methods
Canada’s Health System and Health Policy
One course (0.5 FCE) from:
Advanced Methods in Health Services Research
One course (0.5 FCE) from:
Biostatistics II: Advanced Techniques in Applied Regression Methods
Intermediate Statistics for Health Services Researchers
Two elective courses (1.0 FCE) from:
Students may enrol in elective courses offered through IHPME, or other departments within the University. Please discuss with your Emphasis Lead. If approved, contact the course instructor. If given permission to enrol in the course, complete an Add/Drop form and submit to the HSR Program Assistant.
Required (2.0 FCE):
Health Data Visualization
Applied Machine Learning for Health Data
Emergent Topics in Health Informatics: Intelligent Medicine, Machine Learning and Knowledge Representation
One of the courses below:
Artificial Intelligence: Development & Implementation in Healthcare
One elective course (0.5 FCE) from:
Evaluation and Research Design in Health Informatics
Students may enrol in elective courses offered through IHPME, or other departments within the University. Please discuss with your Emphasis Lead. If approved, contact the course instructor. If given permission to enrol in the course, complete an Add/Drop form and submit to the HSR Program Assistant.
Canada’s Health System and Health Policy
Introduction to Clinical Epidemiology and Health Care Research
Introduction to Applied Biostatistics
One course (0.5 FCE) from:
Economic Evaluation Methods for Health Services Research
Resource Allocation Ethics
Evidence Synthesis for Health Services, Systems and Policy Research
Evidence Synthesis: Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis
One elective course (0.5 FCE) from:
Students may enrol in elective courses offered through IHPME, or other departments within the University. Please discuss with your Emphasis Lead. If approved, contact the course instructor. If given permission to enrol in the course, complete an Add/Drop form and submit to the HSR Program Assistant.
To gain an understanding of knowledge translation students can take two courses from the Knowledge Translation offerings using their electives or additional courses.
Course-based MSc
Comprising 5.0 Full Course Equivalents (FCE)
Program Requirements:
Students meet annually with the course-based MSc lead (Xiaolin Wei) to review the students’ progress and to plan coursework and other activities for the next year.
Course Requirements:
A minimum of 10 half-year courses (5.0 FCEs). Two of the courses must be in health systems research and two must be in research methodology. The remaining six are elective courses.
To be eligible for the minimum program, students must have knowledge of the Canadian health care system and basic research and statistics skills. Students whose preparation is insufficient in these areas will be required to take additional courses. Course exemptions will only be offered to those students who have successfully completed graduate level courses at accredited universities, but no degree was awarded for completion of those courses.
Students must choose 2 half-courses (1.0 FCE) from:
Canada’s Health System and Health Policy
Knowledge Transfer and Exchange: The Art and Science of Making Research Relevant and Increasing Utilization
Introduction to Theories of Organizational Behaviour and Applications to the Health Care Sector
Students must choose 2 half-courses (1.0 FCE) from:
Students may pick 6 courses (3.0 FCE) from the following:
Evaluation and Research Design in Health Informatics
Performance Measurements in Healthcare: Theory and Application
Economic Evaluation Methods for Health Services Research
Tools for Implementation Science
Advanced Methods for Economic Evaluation
Quantitative Methods in HSR I
Advanced Health Economics and Policy Analysis
Advanced Methods in Health Services Research
Resource Allocation Ethics
Comparative Health Systems and Policy
Advanced Health Economics and Policy Analysis II
Students wishing to acquire the Knowledge Translation area of study must take two KT courses from 2 courses:
*Students may choose other courses with the approval of the HSR Program Director.
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Institute of Health Policy,
Management and Evaluation
155 College Street, Suite 425, Toronto, ON, M5T 3M6
©University of Toronto, Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation
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