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 – 2022 - 2024 | |||
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Calendar | Course code | Course | EC |
Aug 2022 | ESP01 | Principles of Research in Medicine and Epidemiology | 0,7 |
Aug 2022 | ESP11 | Methods of Public Health Research | 0,7 |
Aug 2022 | ESP43 | Principles of Genetic Epidemiology | 0,7 |
Aug 2022 | ESP61 | Social Epidemiology | 0,7 |
Aug 2022 | ESP65 | Practice of Epidemiology Analysis | 0,7 |
Aug 2022 | ESP70 | Fundamentals of Medical Decision Making | 0,7 |
Aug 2022 | CK001 | Review of Mathematics and Introduction to Statistics | 1,0 |
Fall 2022 | CK010 | Study Design | 4,0 |
Fall 2022 | CK020 | Biostatistics I | 4,5 |
Fall 2022 | CK030 | Biostatistics II | 4,5 |
Fall 2022 | CK040 | Clinical Epidemiology | 3,0 |
Fall 2022 | CK050 | Principles of Public Health | 3,0 |
Jan 2023 | CK060 | Selected Topics in Epidemiology | 3,0 |
Fall 2022 | CK070 | Core competences exam | 1,0 |
Winter-spring 2024 | LLS01 | Introduction to Medical Writing | 2,0 |
Sep 2022-Jul 2024 | LLS04 | Portfolio | 1,1 |
Fall 2022-Jul 2023 | LLS05 | Intervision | 0,4 |
Winter-spring 2023 | LLS06 | Scientific Integrity | 0,3 |
Fall 2022 | LLS07 | Intercultural Communication | 0,2 |
Fall 2022-Jul 2024 | M-RES | Research | 28,7 |
Jan 2023-Aug 2024 |
| Elective courses**** | 10,0 |
TOTAL EC points | 70,0 |
**** Students are allowed to exceed the amount of elective EX points by max 1.4 EC
This 13-month programme runs from August 2022 until August 2023 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