PhD Degree Program in Epidemiology
Curriculum
Requirements
A minimum of 20.0 credit units (CU) is required to obtain the PhD Degree in Epidemiology. The core courses required for all PhD students represent 11.5 credit units of the 20.0 required credits for the degree. They are:
- Introduction to Epidemiology (EPID 510), 1.0 cu
- Biostatistics for Epidemiologic Methods I (EPID 526), 1.0 cu
- Biostatistics for Epidemiologic Methods II (EPID 527), 1.0 cu
- Database Management for Clinical Epidemiology (EPID 532), 0.5cu
- Measurement of Health in Epidemiology (EPID 542), 1.0 cu
- Advanced Database Management (EPID 633), 1.0 cu
- Advanced Topics in Epidemiology I (EPID 640), 1.0 cu
- Empirical Bioethics (EPID 690), 1.0 cu
- Doctoral Seminar (EPID 700), 0.5cu for each semester, minimum of four semesters or 2.0 cu
- Research Design Consultation (EPID 710), 1.0 cu
- Practical Applications of Clinical Research Methods (EPID 805), 1.0 cu
- At least 8.5 course units of electives. All electives will be chosen in consultation with the student's faculty advisor and must be approved by the Graduate Group Chair.
Additional requirements include:
- Attendance at the weekly epidemiology seminars.
- Participation in the doctoral student seminar, a monthly meeting of all PhD students in which their research is presented and discussed in an informal setting.
- Participation in a primary data collection activity
- Participation in a weekly CCEB Research Seminar series
- Participation in the Responsible Conduct of Research Course
- Completion of web-based seminars in CITI and HIPAA training
- Teaching support as a Teaching Assistant (TA) for an Epidemiology or Biostatistics course
- Successful completion of PhD examinations.
Course Plans
All students are expected to develop and maintain a current course plan developed with and monitored by their mentor. This course plan must be approved by the Program Director, and will be reviewed semi-annually in order to monitor the student's progress and identify potential delays in completing the program. A typical course plan is provided below.
Sample course plan for an entering PhD student
Year 1- EPID 510: Introduction to Epidemiology (Summer II term)
- EPID 526: Biostatistics for Epidemiology (Summer II term)
- EPID 542: Measurements of Health (Fall term)
- EPID 526/7: Biostatistics for Epidemiology I (cont'd.)I/II (Fall term)
- EPID/Other: Epidemiology or other elective (Fall term)
- EPID 700: Doctoral Seminar (Fall term)
- EPID 527: Biostatistics for Epidemiology II (cont'd.) (Spring term)
- EPID 532: Database Management (Spring term)
- EPID/Other: Epidemiology or other elective (Spring term)
- EPID 700: Doctoral Seminar (Spring term)
- EPID 633: Advanced Database Management (Spring term)
- EPID 640: Advanced Topics in Epidemiology I (Summer II term)
- EPID 690: Empirical Bioethics (Summer II term)
- EPID/BSTA: Advanced Biostatistics course or elective (Fall term)
- EPID/Other: Epidemiology or other elective (Fall term)
- EPID 805: Practical Applications in Clinical Research Methods (Fall term)
- EPID 700: Doctoral Seminar (Fall term)
- EPID/BSTA: Advanced Biostatistics course or elective (Spring term)
- EPID/Other: Epidemiology or other elective (Spring term)
- EPID 700: Doctoral Seminar (Spring term)
- Qualifications Examination (Summer)
- EPID/Other: Epidemiology or other elective (Fall term)
- EPID 710: Consultation in Epidemiology (Fall term)
- EPID 700: Doctoral Seminar (non-credit) (Fall term)
- EPID/Other: Epidemiology or other elective (Spring term)
- EPID 700: Doctoral Seminar (non-credit) (Spring term)
- Candidacy Examination (Summer)
- Dissertation Research (Fall term)
- EPID 700: Doctoral Seminar (non-credit) (Fall term)
- Dissertation Defense
Course descriptions can be found on our Clinical Epidemiology Courses web page.
