Education objectives
This MSc programme focuses on training students who are already educated in research methodology, but wish to take a step further in developing a successful career in health science research. This programme is also interesting if you want to enhance your chances of pursuing a PhD.
- In the course of the programme you will acquire the following competencies:
- Ability to formulate a clinical or public health problem and translate it into a scientific question;
- Ability to perform an extensive study of the literature concerning a problem;
- Ability to translate a scientific question into a research protocol;
- Acquisition of quantitative skills;
- Ability to make causal inferences;
- Ability to critically appraise published research;
- Ability to conduct the research, collect and analyse data, and draw conclusions;
- Ability to write a Master’s thesis, including the objective(s) of the investigation, a summary of the literature, materials, methods, results, discussion and conclusions of the research project and to present these findings at scientific meetings. Publication of the research findings in an international peer-reviewed journal is encouraged.
Specialisations
Please see below for information about the specialisation within this Master Programme. Whether a specialisation is offered full-time or part-time, is indicated accordingly.
Specialisation | Full-time | Part-time |
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Clinical Epidemiology | Full-time | Part-time |
Epidemiology | Full-time | Part-time |
Genetic & Molecular Epidemiology | Full-time | Part-time |
Medical Psychology | Full-time | Part-time |
Health Decision Sciences | Full-time | Part-time |
Biostatistics | Full-time | Part-time |
Public Health Epidemiology | Full-time | Part-time |
Curriculum Overview
Research Master in Health Sciences – 70 EC points – 2023 - 2024 | |||
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Calendar | Course code | Course | EC |
Fall 2023 | CK001 | Review of Mathematics and Introduction to Statistics | 1,0 |
Fall 2023 | CK010 | Study Design | 4,0 |
Fall 2023 | CK020 | Biostatistics I | 4,5 |
Fall 2023 | CK030 | Biostatistics II | 4,5 |
Fall 2023 | CK040 | Clinical Epidemiology | 3,0 |
Fall 2023 | CK050 | Principles of Public Health | 3,0 |
Jan 2024 | CK060 | Selected Topics in Epidemiology | 3,0 |
Fall 2023 | CK070 | Core competences exam | 1,0 |
Winter-spring 2024 | LLS01 | Introduction to Medical Writing | 2,0 |
Sep 2023-Jul 2024 | LLS04 | Portfolio | 0,2 |
Fall 2023-Jul 2023 | LLS05 | Intervision | 0,4 |
Winter-spring 2024 | LLS06 | Scientific Integrity | 0,3 |
Fall 2023 | LLS07 | Intercultural Communication | 0,2 |
Fall 2023-Jul 2024 | M-RES | Research | 28,7 |
Jan 2024-Aug 2024 |
| Elective courses* | 14,2 |
TOTAL EC points | 70,0 |
* Students are allowed to exceed the amount of elective EX points by max 1.4 EC
This programme runs from September 2023 until August 2024 and can be followed part-time.
Note that some courses need to be followed in a specific order as earlier courses are prerequisites for later courses