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Clinical Investigation

Our program prepares clinician-scientists to carry out patient-based research in the development of interventions and technologies to ensure the highest levels of patient safety and quality of care. Our MS program sits within a large urban medical center and all its clinical research resources and collaborative faculty.

Information about faculty and research can be found on the Clinical Investigation website.

AdmissionsLink to section

Applying to Master's ProgramsLink to section

Application to the program is encouraged from people with a special interest or experience in the health field, from those in health-related professions, and from those with professional degrees in medicine and other fields related to health care. Candidates for admission to the program must have earned a baccalaureate degree or its equivalent.

Application Requirements

We expect all application materials (exception official score reports) to be scanned and uploaded to your online application. Please note that the University of Rochester reserves the right to verify the accuracy of all transcripts and to require submission of official documentation at any point in the admissions review process.

  • SOPHAS application
  • Statement of purpose
  • Transcript(s) (please do not mail a hard copy)
  • Three letters of recommendation
  • Applicants whose native language is not English must demonstrate English proficiency by providing official scores within two years of the original test date. Acceptable test types: official TOEFL iBT or ITP Plus (SMD school code: 2948; SOPHAS application code: 5688), IELTS, and DuoLingo.
  • CV or resume (optional)
  • Research papers, publications, and other original works (optional)

Please do not include secondary school documentation or financial documentation as these are not used during the admissions process. Application deadlines are May 1 for the fall semester and November 1 for the spring semester.

AcademicsLink to section

Master's Degrees and RequirementsLink to section

The Master of Science in Clinical Investigation includes 31 credits of required coursework. This includes epidemiology, biostatistics, and data management core methods courses, ethics, elective courses, and thesis research (six credits). Students present their thesis proposal in a public forum and submit a final thesis document to their thesis committee for approval.

Graduate Course TitlesLink to section

  • PM 401: Quantitative Methods
  • PM 410: Introduction to Data Management and Analysis
  • PM 415: Principles of Epidemiology
  • PM 460: Master’s Research
  • IND 501: Ethics and Professional Integrity in Research
  • PM 413: Field Methods in Epidemiology
  • PM 416: Advanced Epidemiologic Methods
  • PM 412: Survey Research
  • PM 413: Field Methods in Epidemiology
  • PM 414: History of Epidemiology
  • PM 417: Molecular Epidemiology
  • PM 418: Cardiovascular Epidemiology and Prevention
  • PM 419: Recruitment and Retention of Human Subjects in Clinical Research
  • PM 420: American Health Policy and Politics
  • PM 421: U.S. Health Care System: Financing, Delivery, and Performance
  • PM 422: Quality of Care and Risk Adjustment
  • PM 424: Epidemiology and Prevention of Chronic Disease
  • PM 426: Social and Behavioral Medicine
  • PM 430: Psychology in Health Services Research
  • PM 442: Nutritional Epidemiology
  • PM 443: Maternal and Child Health
  • PM 445: Introduction to Health Services Research
  • PM 451: Infectious Disease Epidemiology
  • PM 458: Qualitative Health Research
  • PM 461: Program Evaluation
  • PM 466: Cancer Epidemiology
  • PM 469: Multivariate Models for Epidemiology
  • PM 472: Measurement and Evaluation of Research Instruments
  • PM 484: Medical Decision Making and Cost Effectiveness Research
  • PM 488: Experimental Therapeutics
  • PM 489: Injury Epidemiology and Emergency Care Research Methods
  • BST 465: Design of Clinical Trials