Other Graduate School Courses
In addition to the Masters Degree Program in Clinical Investigation, Department personnel teach in other graduate courses and programs:
Bioinformatics and Computational Biomedicine:
Institute for Computational Biomedicine, 1305 York Avenue, 13th Floor
New York, NY 10021
Course Director: Lucy Skrabanek, PhD
Instructor: Xi Kathy Zhou, PhD
(Course offered alternate years)
Master of Science in Health Sciences for Physician Assistants Program (Physician Assistant Program, A Surgical Focus)
575 Lexington Avenue, Suite 600, New York, NY 10022
Telephone: 646-962-7277
Fax: 646-962-7290
- Research Methodology and Application: This course explores the basic concepts of research in the health sciences, addressing problem finding, formulation of a research question, methodology, design, data collection and interpretation. Ethical considerations in research are examined. Published research articles are analyzed critically.
(Course taught January-October every year)
Course Co-Directors: Alvin I. Mushlin, MD, ScM; Gerard J. Marciano, RPA-C, MS - Introduction to Biostatistics: This course provides an introduction to statistical methods as applied
to health care research. Topics include population sampling, hypotheses
testing, probability, and chi-square, linear regression and
correlation, analysis of variance and non-parametric statistics.
Course Directors: Paul Christos, DrPH; Madhu Mazumdar, PhD
(Course taught September-December every year) - Introduction to Epidemiology: This course applies the scientific method to the study of disease in
populations. The epidemiological method for studying a problem involves
description of the frequency and determinants of a disease in a defined
population , evaluation of factors that may cause a disease, and
experimental studies of the effects of modifying risk factors on the
subsequent frequency of a disease.
Course Directors: Paul Christos, DrPH; Madhu Mazumdar, PhD
(Course taught every Spring)
