HPME: Health Policy, Management and Evaluation PhD; Concentration: Health Professions Education Research

PhD Program; Concentration: Health Professions Education Research (Full-Time)

Minimum Admission Requirements

  • Applicants are admitted under the General Regulations of the School of Graduate Studies. Applicants must also satisfy the IHPME's additional admission requirements stated below.

  • A master's degree (MA or MSc) requiring a thesis with a B+ average or higher.

  • Satisfactory references pertaining to the applicant's academic and research abilities.

  • Outstanding students with a non-thesis master's degree may be admitted to the full-time PhD upon the recommendation of the appropriate IHPME committee, if the applicant has the appropriate background preparation and research experience or publications which can be considered equivalent to a master's thesis.

Completion Requirements

  • Completion of a comprehensive course.

  • Completion of 5.0 full-course equivalents (FCEs), which must include:

    • 2.5 FCEs in compulsory courses:

      • HAD5011H Canada's Health System and Health Policy

      • HAD6500H Essential Skills in HPER

      • HAD6501H Introduction to Methods/Methodologies for HPER

      • HAD6502H Survey of Critical and Interpretive Social Science Theory for HPER or HAD6503H Survey of Cognitive and Behavioural Sciences Theory for Health Professions Education Research

      • HAD6504H Intermediate Critical and Interpretive Social Science Methods or HAD6505H Intermediate Cognitive and Behavioural Sciences Methods/Methodologies for Health Professions Education Research

    • 0.5 FCE: HAD6560H Health Professions Education Research (HPER) Comprehensive Exam.

    • 2.0 recommended FCEs from the following Health Professions Education Research concentration courses:

      • HAD6506H Assessment in Health Professions Education

      • HAD6507H Identity and Professional Life for Health Professions Education Research

      • HAD6508H Sociology of the Professions

      • HAD6509H The Examination: The Technology that Shapes What We Can Know, Do, and Be

      • HAD6510H Academic Medicine: From the Global to the Virtual

      • HAD6560H Health Professions Education Research (HPER) Comprehensive Exam.

  • Students may elect to take up to 0.5 FCE on a Credit/No Credit (CR/NCR) basis. See the CR/NCR-eligible courses in the course list section.

  • Writing of a PhD thesis under the supervision of an approved thesis committee (supervisor plus at least two additional graduate faculty members).

  • Oral defence of the thesis before an examination committee.

Mode of Delivery: In person
Program Length: 4 years full-time (typical registration sequence: Continuous)
Time Limit: 6 years full-time

 

PhD Program; Concentration: Health Professions Education Research (Flexible-Time)

Minimum Admission Requirements

  • Applicants are admitted under the General Regulations of the School of Graduate Studies. Applicants must also satisfy the IHPME's additional admission requirements stated below.

  • A master's degree (MA or MSc) requiring a thesis with a B+ average or higher.

  • Satisfactory references pertaining to the applicant's academic and research abilities.

  • Outstanding students with a non-thesis master's degree may be admitted to the flexible-time PhD upon the recommendation of the appropriate IHPME committee, if the applicant has the appropriate background preparation and research experience or publications which can be considered equivalent to a master's thesis.

Completion Requirements

  • Students must register full-time for the first four years of their program (Fall, Spring, Summer sessions); thereafter, they may register part-time.

  • Completion of a comprehensive course.

  • Completion of 5.0 full-course equivalents (FCEs), which must include:

    • 2.5 FCEs in compulsory courses:

      • HAD5011H Canada's Health System and Health Policy

      • HAD6500H Essential Skills in HPER

      • HAD6501H Introduction to Methods/Methodologies for HPER

      • HAD6502H Survey of Critical and Interpretive Social Science Theory for HPER or HAD6503H Survey of Cognitive and Behavioural Sciences Theory for Health Professions Education Research

      • HAD6504H Intermediate Critical and Interpretive Social Science Methods or HAD6505H Intermediate Cognitive and Behavioural Sciences Methods/Methodologies for Health Professions Education Research

    • 0.5 FCE: HAD6560H Health Professions Education Research (HPER) Comprehensive Exam.

    • 2.0 recommended FCEs from the following Health Professions Education Research concentration courses:

      • HAD6506H Assessment in Health Professions Education

      • HAD6507H Identity and Professional Life for Health Professions Education Research

      • HAD6508H Sociology of the Professions

      • HAD6509H The Examination: The Technology that Shapes What We Can Know, Do, and Be

      • HAD6510H Academic Medicine: From the Global to the Virtual

      • HAD6560H Health Professions Education Research (HPER) Comprehensive Exam.

  • Students may elect to take up to 0.5 FCE on a Credit/No Credit (CR/NCR) basis. See the CR/NCR-eligible courses in the course list section.

  • Writing of a PhD thesis under the supervision of an approved thesis committee (supervisor plus at least two additional graduate faculty members).

  • Oral defence of the thesis before an examination committee.

Mode of Delivery: In person
Program Length: 6 years full-time (typical registration sequence: Continuous)
Time Limit: 8 years full-time

 

Health Policy, Management and Evaluation