Required Courses |
BIOS 6611/6612 |
Biostatistical Methods I and Biostatistical Methods II |
EPID 6630 |
Epidemiology |
PHSC 7620 |
Research Design and Methodology in Pharmaceutical Outcomes Research |
HSMP 6604 |
Health Care Economics |
EPID 6631 |
Analytical Epidemiology |
PHSC 7611 |
Pharmacoeconomics (Libby/Campbell) |
PHSC 7613 |
Pharmaceutical and Drug Related Policy (Nair) |
PHSC 7615 |
Pharmacoepidemiology (Valuck) |
PHSC 7570 |
Graduate Student Seminar |
PHSC 7911 |
Research Practicum |
Total Required Core Course Credits for All Students |
CLSC 8990 |
Doctoral Thesis |
Approved Elective Courses |
BIOS 6643 |
Analysis of Longitudinal Data |
BIOS 6646 |
Survival Analysis |
BIOS 6648/6649 |
Design of Clinical Trials and Experiments (can take 6648 OR 6649) |
BIOS 6649 |
Design of Studies in the Health Sciences |
BIOS 6659 |
Statistical Methods in Genomics |
BIOS 6680 |
SAS Programming for Data Analysis |
BIOS 6683 |
Introduction to Health Information Technology |
BIOS 7711-7713 |
Advanced Statistical Methods Courses |
CBHS 6620 |
Survey Research |
ECON 5813 |
Econometrics I (UCD downtown campus) |
ECON 5823 |
Econometrics II (UCD downtown campus) |
EPID 6632 |
Advanced Epidemiology |
EPID 6646 |
Introduction to Systematic Reviews |
EPID 6635 |
Epidemiology of Communicable Disease |
EPID 6636 |
Chronic Disease Epidemiology |
EPID 6638 |
Cardiovascular Epidemiology |
EPID 6639 |
Genetic and Molecular Epidemiology |
HSMP 6603 |
Health Care Systems |
HSMP 6609 |
Cost Benefit and Effectiveness in Health |
HSMP 6617 |
Introduction to Health Services Research |
HSMP 6625 |
Methods in Health Services Research |
The program’s strengths in outcomes research are emphasized in 35 credits of several areas:
- Biostatistics
- Epidemiology
- Economics
- Health Policy
- Research/Study Design
- Doctoral Thesis
The program has experience in accessing a multitude of data such as MEPS, PHARMetrics, University Health-System, Consortium and MarketScan. Students are encouraged to utilize these datasets as well as primary data collection.