A Joint Program of Brigham and Women's Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School & Harvard School of Public Health.
The Program in Clinical Effectiveness is designed for the clinician seeking the quantitative and analytic skills needed for clinical research or interested in health care administration.
This program begins with an intensive seven-week, 15-credit summer curriculum, which contains summer-long core courses in Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics. All participants also select two half-summer courses from offerings in Current Issues in Health Policy, Decision Analysis in Clinical Research, Ethical Basis of the Practice of Public Health, Improving Quality in Health Care, Introduction to Methods and Applications in Health Services Research, Linear and Longitudinal Regression, Measuring and Analyzing the Outcomes of Health Care, Medical Informatics, Methods for Decision Making in Medicine, and Research with Large Databases. For students with previous experience, second level courses are also offered in Analytic Issues of Clinical Epidemiology, Principles of Clinical Trials, and Survival Methods in Clinical Research.
Students are limited to 15 credits for a single summer but can take additional courses in a second summer. Qualified participants may also take courses during the regular academic year at the Harvard School of Public Health. (See Additional Coursework and Degree options)
