If you started the program before September 2025 you can find your degree requirements as published in past SGS Calendars. Select the year your studies began, open the calendar, search for HPME and then for your degree and/or emphasis.
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 their Emphasis Lead 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.
One course (0.5 FCE) from:
Quantitative Methods in HSR I
Participation in:
Health Systems Research Seminar Series (for MSc)
Two courses (1.0 FCE) from:
Economic Evaluation Methods for Health Services Research
Quantitative Methods in HSR II
Advanced Health Economics and Policy Analysis
Advanced Health Economics and Policy Analysis II
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 the course outside IHPME is 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.
Cognitive, Social & Information Science Theory in Health Informatics Research
One course (0.5 FCE) from:
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 the course outside IHPME is 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.
Comparative Health Systems and Policy
One course (0.5 FCE) from:
Advanced Health Economics and Policy Analysis
Introduction to Theories of Organizational Behaviour and Applications to the Health Care Sector
Climate Change & Sustainable Health Systems
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 the course outside IHPME is 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.
Introduction to Theories of Organizational Behaviour and Applications to the Health Care Sector
Tools for Implementation Science
One elective course (0.5 FCE) from:
HSR course list
Students may enrol in elective courses offered through IHPME, or other departments within the University. Please discuss with your Emphasis Lead. If the course outside IHPME is 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.
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
Introduction to Statistics for Health Systems Research
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 the course outside IHPME is 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.
Two courses (1.0 FCE):
Health Data Visualization
Applied Machine Learning for Health Data
One course (0.5 FCE) from:
Artificial Intelligence: Development & Implementation in Healthcare
The Artificial Intelligence Emphasis requires 1.5 FCE in Emphasis specific electives because of alignment with the Vector Scholarship.
Introduction to Clinical Epidemiology and Health Care Research
One course (0.5 FCE) from:
Economic Evaluation Methods for Health Services Research
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 the course outside IHPME is 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.
Three elective courses (1.5 FCE) from:
Students may enrol in elective courses offered through IHPME, or other departments within the University. Please discuss with the General Stream Lead. If the course outside IHPME is 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.
Course-based MSc
Comprising 5.0 Full Course Equivalents (FCE)
Program Requirements:
Students meet annually with one of the Course-Based MSc Leads (Xiaolin Wei or Aviv Shachak) 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.
Two courses (1.0 FCE) normally from:
Introduction to Theories of Organizational Behaviour and Applications to the Health Care Sector
Two courses (1.0 FCE) normally from:
Intermediate Level Qualitative Research for Health Services and Policy Research
Quantitative Methods in HSR I
Quantitative Methods in HSR II
Introduction to Statistics for Health Systems Research
Evidence Synthesis for Health Services, Systems and Policy Research
Case Study Research for Health Services, Systems and Policy
Six courses (3.0 FCE) normally from:
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
Quantitative Methods in HSR I
Advanced Health Economics and Policy Analysis
Advanced Methods in Health Services Research
Comparative Health Systems and Policy
Advanced Health Economics and Policy Analysis II
*Students may choose other courses with the approval of the HSR Program Director.
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Management and Evaluation
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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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