Program Requirements
The Ph.D. in Health Sciences Education focuses on research training, including investigation into issues related to healthcare, health professions education, and health policy education in the biomedical and health social sciences.
Required Courses (9 credits)
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HSED 701 PhD Comprehensive Examination
Overview
HSED : An examination process covering two components: a written component and an oral component. Submission of a written proposal for examination which, following responses or amendments and re-examination, is the basis of an oral examination. The comprehensive examination must be passed by all doctoral candidates in order to continue in the doctoral program.
Terms: Fall 2024, Winter 2025
Instructors: Nugus, Peter (Fall) Nugus, Peter (Winter)
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HSED 702D1 Advanced Topics in Health Sciences Education (3 credits)
Overview
HSED : The relationship between research knowledge and health educational practice, including the continuum of knowledge creation and engagement; education and healthcare systems, including research on: policy, governance and regulation; program design and teaching and learning approaches in health sciences education (HSE); assessment and evaluation frameworks, including: quantitative and qualitative approaches; social accountability in HSE and HSE research including: equity, diversity and inclusion; and professional research skills, including: research management, academic communication in various genres, and research supervision.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Nugus, Peter (Fall)
Prerequisite: Permission of the Instructor
Students must register for both HSED 702D1 and HSED 702D2
No credit will be given for this course unless both HSED 702D1 and HSED 702D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
Language of instruction is English.
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HSED 702D2 Advanced Topics in Health Sciences Education (3 credits)
Overview
HSED : For description see HSED 702D1.
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: Wagner, Maryam; Gomez-Garibello, Carlos (Winter)
Prerequisite: HSED 702D1
No credit will be given for this course unless both HSED 702D1 and HSED 702D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
Language of instruction is English.
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HSED 703 Research Design for Health Sciences Education (3 credits)
Overview
HSED : Various frameworks, theories and methodologies that contribute to health sciences education (HSE) research, and how these elements fit together to make a particular project coherent. Examination of the character of inter-disciplinary academic contributions and foci in HSE research. Emphasis on different types of research perspectives (such as constructionism, postmodernism and positivism) and approaches (qualitative, quantitative, participatory and mixed-methods).
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Young, Meredith (Fall)
Prerequisite: Permission of the Instructor
Language of Instruction is English.
Complementary Courses (3 credits)
3 credits from the following:
Psychiatry
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PSYT 625 Qualitative Research in Health Care (3 credits)
Overview
Psychiatry : Discussion and practice of qualitative methodologies for conducting rigorous and reflective qualitative research projects in health care sector including ethnographic fieldwork and community interviews.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Groleau, Danielle (Fall)
Family Medicine
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FMED 509 Epidemiology and Data Analysis in Primary Care 2 (3 credits)
Overview
Family Medicine : Intermediate epidemiological concepts, data analysis, and methods applicable to primary care research.
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: Barnett, Tracie; Schuster, Tibor (Winter)
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FMED 604 Advanced Participatory Research in Health (3 credits)
Overview
Family Medicine : Overview of participatory research with community, clinical, and organisational stakeholders. Content focuses on participatory engagement and data collection methods, while students have an opportunity to work through aspects of their participatory project with the help of group discussions, small group work, roleplay, and guest presentations from actual participatory projects.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Andersson, Neil (Fall)
Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor if graduate student is outside the department
Restriction(s): Open to graduate students in the Department of Family Medicine.
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FMED 625 Introduction to Qualitative Research in Health (3 credits)
Overview
Family Medicine : Introduction, discussion, and practice of qualitative methodologies and methods for conducting rigorous and reflective qualitative research projects in health, with particular focus on family medicine education and health professions education.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Rodriguez, Charo (Fall)
Prerequisite(s): Permission of the instructor if graduate student is outside of the Department of Family Medicine or the Institute of Health Sciences Education.
Course will be given in English. Course work may be submitted in English or French.
Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken or are taking HSED 625 or PSYT 625.
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FMED 690 Advanced Ethnography: Context, Complexity and Coordination (3 credits)
Overview
Family Medicine : Addressing the rationale and assumptions of ethnography, including the practices, processes and strategies to set up, conduct, analyze, write up and provide feedback to participants. This exploration will come from a project based on deep and immersed observation in order to develop an understanding of shared meaning systems (i.e., culture).
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Prerequisite: Permission of instructor if graduate student is outside the department
Restriction: Open to graduate students in the Department of Family Medicine.
Language of instruction: English
Epidemiology
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EPIB 628 Measurement in Epidemiology (3 credits)
Overview
Epidemiology & Biostatistics : This course will focus on methodological issues related to measures of health status, determinants of health status, and other relevant covariates encountered in clinical and epidemiologic research. Topics to be covered include instrument development, assessment of reliability and validity, item response theory, and latent variable-based measurement models.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Nursing
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NUR2 702 Quantitative Research (3 credits)
Overview
Nursing : Examination of various experimental, quasi-experimental, correlational, and survey designs with particular focus on the use of these designs in nursing research.
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: Gélinas, Céline (Winter)
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NUR2 706 Qualitative Nursing Research (3 credits)
Overview
Nursing : Advanced examination of the utilization of qualitative research in nursing.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Restriction: Enrolled in Ph.D. in Nursing or permission of instructor
Management
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MGPO 701 Seminar in Qualitative Methods (3 credits)
Overview
Management Policy : Seminar on the foundations of qualitative methods, with emphasis on underlying principles.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Education
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EDEC 707 Interpretive Inquiry (3 credits)
Overview
Curriculum and Instruction : Focus on issues of voice, reflectivity, and representation when using interpretive frameworks in qualitative research.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Restriction: Not open to students who have taken EDEM 679
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EDPE 682 Univariate/Multivariate Analysis (3 credits)
Overview
Ed Psych & Couns (Psychology) : General linear model as a unified data analytic system for estimation and hypothesis testing that subsumes regression, analysis of variance, and analysis of covariance for single dependent variables. Introduction to generalizations involving multiple dependent (criterion) variables. Applications oriented toward education, educational psychology and counselling psychology. Experience with data-analysis tools.
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: Konishi, Chiaki; Cutumisu, Maria (Winter)
Prerequisite: EDPE 676
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EDPE 687 Qualitative Methods in Educational Psychology (3 credits)
Overview
Ed Psych & Couns (Psychology) : The logics of design and selection of phenomenology, grounded theory, ethnography, case study and mixed design methods with emphasis on data analysis in light of issues of research purpose, epistemology, reliability and validity.
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: Sinacore, Ada L (Winter)
Sociology
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SOCI 588 Biosociology/Biodemography (3 credits)
Overview
Sociology (Arts) : This course will explore linkages between social and biological systems, their influence on health and well-being over the life course, and on health disparities. Topics include classical sociological approaches to biosocial processes, sociobiology (reductionist, but population-based), and newer demographic studies on gen-environment, epigenetic, and stress-metabolic/allostatic processes.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Electives (0-9)
Depending on the student's prior coursework and in consultation with the Supervisor and/or Doctoral Advisory Committee, an additional 0-9 credits of elective courses at the 500 level or higher may be required.
