Based on NIH guidelines for Responsible Conduct of Research, this course will present ethical and regulatory guidelines for conducting clinical research.

Disease prevention and control have been recognized as more efficient and effective in extending the quality and quantity of human life. As a core part of the Preventive Medicine- Public Health Residency curriculum, this course will focus on up-to-date, clinically relevant information and cutting edge research results regarding clinical preventive medicine and public health issues.

The student will learn the fundamentals of designing clinical research studies of diagnostic tests, prognosis, and causation. Students will practice these skills through focused critiques of the medical literature and by designing clinical research studies.

This course applies general theoretical principles of economics to the health care sector. The basic approach is to recognize the importance of scarcity and incentives, allowing for differences peculiar to health. The demand and supply of health and medical care are examined as they involve physicians, nurses and hospitals. The competitiveness of their markets, health insurance and the role of government are explored. Special topics include regulation and planning, benefit-cost analysis, and reform health plans.

Seminar course designed as the integrative introduction, consideration, capstone for the Doctor of Public Health (Dr.P.H.) degree. Offered each semester of enrollment.

A culminating experience professional seminar linking evidence-based academic work in public health with the foundations of practice. A fundamental part of the course is to prepare the learner for a community advocacy role in public health using skill sets found in critical analysis and leadership.

Basic clinical laboratory principles and techniques; includes laboratory safety, sterilization procedures, pipetting, microscopy, routine culture and staining procedures, chamber counts, laboratory math calculations and statistics. Consent of instructor required for non-CS or non-CLS students.

A study of disease processes, pathognomonic parameters, and pathologic factors that mediate disease. Diagnostic testing used to validate disease process will be used to emphasize to the student the role of clinical sciences in the diagnosis of these complex disease states. Variances in disease in relationship to age will be examined.

The focus of this integrative course will be on policy and ethical issues confronting health care providers, health care systems, and particularly those issues specific to clinical sciences. Emphasis will be placed on current trends and anticipated challenges in providing humane and cost-effective health care services, with particular reference to the medically underserved and other at-risk populations.

Provides skills required of successful scientist to communicate effectively with peers, clients and general public. Each student will demonstrate an ability to interact with community, to function in an educator role by investigating a topic and preparing and delivering a presentation to the class and a community group. May be repeated up to five times.