Program Requirements
Thesis Courses (24 credits)
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FMED 697 Master's Thesis Research 1 (12 credits)
Overview
Family Medicine : Independent work under the direction of a supervisor in a designated area of research.
Terms: Fall 2015, Winter 2016
Instructors: Bartlett-Esquilant, Gillian (Fall) Bartlett-Esquilant, Gillian (Winter)
Restriction(s): Open only to students registered in the M.Sc in Family Medicine program.
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FMED 698 Master's Thesis Research 2 (12 credits)
Overview
Family Medicine : Independent work under the direction of a supervisor in a designated area of research.
Terms: Fall 2015, Winter 2016
Instructors: Bartlett-Esquilant, Gillian (Fall) Bartlett-Esquilant, Gillian (Winter)
Restriction(s): Open only to students registered in the M.Sc in Family Medicine program.
Required Courses (15 credits)
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FMED 505 Basic Analysis for Health Data (3 credits)
Overview
Family Medicine : Basic principles of statistical inference applicable to clinical family medicine research and other health research. Topics include descriptive statistics, correlation, probability, inference, regression, and program evaluation.
Terms: Fall 2015
Instructors: Andersson, Neil; Salsberg, Jonathan (Fall)
Open to all graduate students in Faculty of Medicine.
Priority to students registered in the MSc in Family Medicine program.
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FMED 509 Foundations of Epidemiology in Family Medicine (3 credits)
Overview
Family Medicine : Essential epidemiological concepts and modern epidemiological methods such as epidemiology in planning, random and systematic errors, causality, measures of association, bias, confounding, effect medication, non-experimental design, randomised controlled trials, sampling strategies, economic and cost analysis, mixed methods and multivariate analysis.
Terms: Fall 2015
Instructors: Andersson, Neil; Salsberg, Jonathan (Fall)
Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor.
Restriction(s): Open only to students enroled in Family Medicine graduate programs.
Language of Instruction: English.
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FMED 600 Mixed Studies Reviews (1 credit)
Overview
Family Medicine : Literature reviews of qualitative, quantitative and mixed-methods studies (epistemological issues, evaluation/research questions, identification of publications, selection of relevant studies, appraisal of methodological quality and synthesis of results).
Terms: Summer 2016
Instructors: Pluye, Pierre; Vedel, Isabelle (Summer)
Prerequisite: 1 course in mixed methods (e.g., DENT 672); OR 1 course in qualitative methods (e.g., PSYT 625) and 1 course in quantitative methods (any introductory course in epidemiology); OR permission of the instructor
Intensive summer course; open to graduate and post-graduate students; contact hours: Monday to Friday from 9:00 am to 12:00 pm (Department of Family Medicine, 5858 Cote des Neiges Road, Suite 300, Montreal, QC H3S1Z1); enrolment limitations: health-related review (all disciplines) and research background (at least 1 course in mixed methods OR 1 course in qualitative and 1 course in quantitative methods); language of instruction: English.
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FMED 603 Participatory Research: Patient & Public Engagement (1 credit)
Overview
Family Medicine : Scholarship and practice of participatory research for engaging patients, practitioners and the public in health research. Includes current issues and examples from contemporary usage in community, clinics, and in knowledge translation.
Terms: Summer 2016
Instructors: Salsberg, Jonathan (Summer)
Prerequisite: Permission of instructor
Restriction: Open to all graduate students in Faculty of Medicine. Priority to students registered in the MSc in Family Medicine program.
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FMED 616 Applied Literature Reviews (1 credit)
Overview
Family Medicine : How to conduct a rigorous literature review in the context of primary care with an opportunity to develop an outline of a literature review section of one’s thesis or to develop a protocol for a systematic review.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2015-2016 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2015-2016 academic year.
Language of Instruction: English Office hours: Tuesdays 12:00 to 2:00
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FMED 625 Qualitative Health Research (3 credits)
Overview
Family Medicine : Discussion and practice of qualitative methodologies for conducting rigorous and reflective qualitative research projects with a family medicine and primary health care focus, including ethnographic fieldwork and community interviews.
Terms: Fall 2015
Instructors: Rodriguez, Rosario (Fall)
Course will be given in English. Course work may be submitted in English or French.
Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken or are taking PSYT 625. Must obtain instructor's approval to register for the course. Open to students with Bachelor’s degrees in Health or Social Science.
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FMED 672 Applied Mixed Methods in Health Research (3 credits)
Overview
Family Medicine : Exploration of how qualitative and quantitative methods can be combined in health research using appropriate mixed methods research questions, designs, and pertinent data collection/analysis.
Terms: Winter 2016
Instructors: Levine, Alissa; Nicolau, Belinda Farias; Pluye, Pierre (Winter)
Contact hours: Monday to Friday from 9am to 4:30pm (Faculty of Dentistry: 514-3987203 extensions 096455 & 00059; language of instruction: English).
Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken or are taking DENT 672.
Only open to students who have had prior graduate training in quantitative and qualitative research methods.
Complementary Courses (6 credits)
6 credits chosen from:
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FMED 503 Survey Research Methods in Primary Care (1 credit)
Overview
Family Medicine : Operational considerations in questionnaire design, sampling, contact and recruitment of respondents, and preparation for analysis. The goal is to maximize response rates and information yield from surveys in the context of designing a questionnaire and survey plan.
Terms: Fall 2015
Instructors: Haggerty, Jean Lois (Fall)
Prerequisite: Permission of instructor
Restriction: Priority to students registered in the MSc in Experimental Medicine Family Medicine program.
Five 3-hour classes offered in English, knowledge of French will be helpful. Knowledge of basic statistics is assumed.
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FMED 504D1 Family Medicine Research Seminars (0.5 credits)
Overview
Family Medicine : Research seminars on various topics relevant to family medicine research.
Terms: Fall 2015
Instructors: Bartlett-Esquilant, Gillian; Salsberg, Jonathan (Fall)
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FMED 504D2 Family Medicine Research Seminars (0.5 credits)
Overview
Family Medicine : Research seminars on various topics relevant to family medicine research.
Terms: Winter 2016
Instructors: Bartlett-Esquilant, Gillian; Salsberg, Jonathan (Winter)
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FMED 525 Foundations of Translational Science (3 credits)
Overview
Family Medicine : An overview of multidisciplinary research that bridges significant gaps between basic, clinical medicine and public policy that enables a translation of knowledge to practice.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2015-2016 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2015-2016 academic year.
Language of Instruction: English.
Prerequisite(s): Permission of the Instructors. FMED 505 or equivalent introductory statistics course.
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FMED 601 Advanced Topics in Family Medicine: Knowledge Translation (3 credits)
Overview
Family Medicine : Integration of knowledge translation to improve scientific communication, design and develop effective related curriculum, set appropriate goals for successful academic research program in family medicine and primary care.
Terms: Winter 2016
Instructors: Bartlett-Esquilant, Gillian (Winter)
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FMED 604 Advanced Participatory Research in Health (3 credits)
Overview
Family Medicine : Participatory research advanced topics.
Terms: Winter 2016
Instructors: Salsberg, Jonathan; Andersson, Neil (Winter)
Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.
Restrictions: Open to all graduate students in the Faculty of Medicine. Priority to students registered in the MSc in Experimental Medicine; Family Medicine program.
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FMED 605 Canadian Healthcare Policy and Decision-Making (1 credit)
Overview
Family Medicine : Introduction to the structure of the Canadian healthcare system, priority-setting in healthcare, policy development and analysis, and concepts and application of evidence informed decision-making. The aim is to provide tools for future practitioners, researchers, and managers to navigate and encourage change in our complex system.
Terms: Summer 2016
Instructors: Law, Susan (Summer)
Prerequisite: Permission of instructor
Restriction: Priority to students registered in the MSc in Experimental Medicine; Family Medicine option
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FMED 607 Intro to Discourse Analysis & Interpretive Health Research (1 credit)
Overview
Family Medicine : Advanced qualitative research course exploring four specific methodologies: conversation analysis, discursive psychology, critical discourse analysis and hermeneutics.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2015-2016 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2015-2016 academic year.
Note: Language of Instuction: English
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FMED 608 Advanced Mixed Methods Seminar in Health Research (1 credit)
Overview
Family Medicine : Advanced epistemological and methodological approaches for graduate students in order to improve their understanding of the approaches and to apply them in their research projects. Students also develop the ability to read and critique peers' mixed methods research projects.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2015-2016 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2015-2016 academic year.
Restriction(s): Permission of instructor. Priority to students registered in: (1) the MSc and PhD (Ad Hoc) in Family Medicine; and then (2) any other graduate program offered by the Faculties of Medicine and of Dentistry.
Language of instruction: English. Pierre Pluye is instructor.
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FMED 610 Foundations of Family Medicine (2 credits)
Overview
Family Medicine : The history, philosophical foundations, clinical method, and key principles of family medicine within Quebec, Canada, and internationally.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2015-2016 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2015-2016 academic year.
Prequisite(s): Permission of the Instructor.
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FMED 611 Healthcare Systems and Primary Care Reform (1 credit)
Overview
Family Medicine : An overview of different health care systems around the world with a detailed understanding of the Quebec primary health care system including past and present reforms.
Terms: Summer 2016
Instructors: Bartlett-Esquilant, Gillian; Levine, David; Rodriguez, Rosario (Summer)
Restriction(s): Permission of instructor.
Language of Instruction: English.
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FMED 612 Program Evaluation and Implementation Science (1 credit)
Overview
Family Medicine : An introduction of how to critically appraise available evidence to become familiar with methods specific to intervention implementation and program evaluation in the context of family medicine practice with an opportunity to develop an evaluation protocol for a specific program that responds to the expectations of clinicians-managers in primary care.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2015-2016 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2015-2016 academic year.
Permission of instructor.
Language of Instruction: English. Office hours: Tuesdays 12:00 to 2:00 pm.
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FMED 618 Topics in Pharmacoeconomics, Drug Safety and Policy (1 credit)
Overview
Family Medicine : Topics pertaining to the pharmaceutical industry, the drug development process, the Canadian regulatory process, research to evaluate drug safety and effectiveness, principles of pharmacoeconomics and methods used to value pharmacotherapy in the context of family medicine will be covered.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2015-2016 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2015-2016 academic year.
Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor.
Language of Instruction: English. Office hours: Tuesdays 12;00 to 2:00 pm
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FMED 619 Program Management in Global Health & Primary Health Care (3 credits)
Overview
Family Medicine : Program management design, theory, methods and practical applications in both domestic and global health settings, with a focus on primary health care in order to achieve rapid scale-up of effective health interventions towards universal coverage while strengthening health systems for sustained impact.
Terms: Winter 2016
Instructors: Bergevin, Yves (Winter)
Prerequisite(s): Permission of Instructor
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FMED 690 Advanced Ethnography: Context, Complexity & Coordination (3 credits)
Overview
Family Medicine : Addressing the rationale and assumptions of ethnography, including the practices, processes and strategies to set up, conduct, analyze, write up and provide feedback to participants. This exploration will come from a project based on deep and immersed observation in order to develop an understanding of shared meaning systems (i.e., culture).
Terms: Winter 2016
Instructors: Nugus, Peter (Winter)
Restriction(s): Permission of instructor. Priority to students registered in: (1) the MSc or Ad Hoc PhD in Family Medicine; and then (2) any other graduate program offered by the Faculties of Medicine and Dentistry.
Language of instruction: English