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Focuses on examination and application of statistical methods, research designs, and epidemiologic principles used in healthcare research. Application will be made to disease prevention and health promotion.

The course covers basic statistical concepts, methods, and reasoning used to improve population health. These concepts include central tendency and dispersion, probability distributions, hypothesis testing, and parametric and non-parametric tests to include correlation and regression analyses. Students will be able to understand and apply statistical language to real-world data, and perform and interpret basic statistical tests needed for public health investigation and research projects.

This course is an overview of healthcare ethics, theoretical foundations of ethical decision-making, and the role of personal values and ethics. The ethical dimensions of geopolitical, economic, sociocultural, environmental, and educational influences on health are explored in local, national, and global contexts. The student learns strategies for analyzing and managing ethical situations, including a faith-based and interprofessional decision-making approach.

This course will provide graduate Health Sciences students a comprehensive exploration and sound understanding of the origins and applications of diverse research methods used in the health sciences, with an emphasis on selecting and applying appropriate research designs. It includes an overview of the scientific methods and the various research paradigms in current use.

This course will provide students a comprehensive study of the human body and its related function. Students will learn human anatomy as it relates to function through the study of bones, cadaver dissection, models, medical imaging, atlas drawings, and their own bodies. Clinical correlations will be presented related the anatomical structures discussed to clinical practice.