Students who complete the Certificate in Clinical Effectiveness will develop the strong methodological skills needed for clinical outcomes research. Students will achieve competency in designing clinical and observational studies, conducting secondary analysis of existing data, and evaluating clinical epidemiology or clinical research projects of clinical or public health significance.
Requirements include:
- Doctoral degree, MD, DO, DPT, PhD, PharmD. Will accept students concurrently enrolled in a MD or doctoral degree program.
- Minimum 15 total credits, including two core courses and three additional elective courses. All electives will be reviewed and approved prior to registration to ensure relevance to the certificate.
Credit: All core courses must be taken for a letter grade, and some elective courses may be taken pass/no pass.
Required Core Courses:
- PHS 5010 Introductory Clinical Epidemiology (3 credits, Fall 1)
- PHS 5040 Introductory Biostatistics for Clinical Research (3 credits, Fall 1)
Elective Courses:
- PHS 5011 Intermediate Clinical Epidemiology (3 credits, Fall 2)
- PHS 5140 Randomized Controlled Trials (3 credits, Fall 1 & 2)
- PHS 5130 Decision Analysis for Clinical Investigation and Economic Evaluation (3 credits, Fall 1 & 2)
- PHS 5150 Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis (3 credits, Spring 1 & 2)
- PHS 5100 Development, Validation and Application of Risk Prediction Models (3 credits, Spring 1 & 2)
- PHS 5080 Using Administrative Data for Health Services Research (3 credits, Spring 1 & 2)
- PHS 5230 Multilevel and Longitudinal Data Analysis for Clinical and Public Health Research (3 credits, Spring 1 & 2)
- PHS 5212 Introduction to Health Disparities and the Structural and Social Determinants of Health (2 credits, Fall 1 & 2)
- PHS 5215 Introduction to Propensity Score Methods (1 credit, Spring 1 & 2)
Applying
Applications are due November 1st for a spring semester start date and April 15th for a fall semester start date. Please email MPHS@wustl.edu with any questions.