4 courses with the subject MSCI, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
MSCI 702Biostatics I – Basic concepts of biostatistics, including probability, sampling distributions
(discrete/continuous), hypothesis testing, parameter estimation, and confidence intervals. Classical data analyses for cohort and case-control studies. Incidence density rate definition, estimation, rate-, risk-, and odds-ratios, analysis of cohort and case-control data, and stratified analysis. 3 credit hours MSCI 704 – Molecular Medicine – This course links introductions to current and emerging molecular techniques in clinical discovery and diagnosis, to their application in clinical research. Examples include the use of qRT-PCR and SNPs 187
MSCI 710Scientific Communication/Grant Writing – This course is composed of a scientific communications
module and a Grant Writing Module. Trainees learn how to read and understand a scientific paper, how to describe a data figure, how to present a 10-minute talk and how to present a poster, with talk and poster presentations as part of the coursework. The grant writing module takes place in June and is composed of 8 hours of didactic introductions to grant writing, which results in all MSCI participants writing K Awards. Offered in June of each year with meetings of 6 hours each week. 2 credit hours
MSCI 723Fundamental Principles of Human Research – An overview of human subject research methods. This3
course is designed to cover all the aspects of human subject research methods, includes practical topics and insight for human subject research and an in-depth review of the science of clinical trials with an emphasis on statistical methodology. 3 credit hours MSCI 807 – Clinical Health Behavior Methods – (Social and Behavioral Science for Public Health) The course will address two core areas in social and behavioral science for public health: 1) the measurement of knowledge, attitudes and behaviors that are relevant to health behavior research, with a focus on scale development and 2) the dispositional and situational variables that underlie current theories of behavior and behavior change, with current applications. VU
MSCI 810Clinical Economics and Decision Analysis – This course will provide an overview of qualitative and
quantitative decision making with a dominant focus on quantitative techniques for decision-making, using clinical and economic endpoints and their role in clinical strategies of care and health policy. Topics include: cognitive heuristics, Baye's theorem, ROC analysis, the study of diagnostic tests, meta-analysis, health states and utility measurement using expected value decision-making, decision tree analysis, Markov processes and network simulation modeling, quantitative management of uncertainty, cost theory and accounting, cost-effectiveness and cost-utility analysis. VU 3 credit hours The MSCI program allows for nine credit hours of elective courses, which permits trainees to select areas of study related to their specific interest and include: • Biostatistics (advanced) • Epidemiology (advanced) • Health Behavior Methods: Methods and Motivation • Medical Writing for Clinical Investigators 188
