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  • Curriculum for the AHRQ Training Program

    Required Coursework

    Current UTHSC-H course offerings may be found here.  

    Core of five (5) required classes:   

    Foundation: required of all trainees  

    •  HI 5311Foundations of Health Information Sciences II (offered in the spring semester; Foundations I is not a prerequisite)
              

    Core: Quality and Safety: Trainees must take one course from each of the following categories (or an equivalent pre-approved course from their home institution): 
    Research Design and Evaluation      

    • HI 5351 Research Design and Evaluation in Health Informatics  

    MS Research Design Workshop  

    • PMCH 6485 Introduction to Research Design and Technology  

    Quality Improvement  

    • HI 6001Outcomes and Quality in Healthcare (offered in spring 2009)  

    MS Quality Improvement  

    Human Factors Engineering  

    • HI 6001 Health Information Technology for Patient Safety  


    Core: Responsible Conduct of Research           

    Per NIH regulation NOT-OD-10-019 all AHRQ trainees must take an approved Responsible Conduct of Research courses at both the graduate level and postdoctoral level, and to provide a transcript, certificate, or other form of proof of completion. Even if a trainee has completed a course as an undergraduate, a graduate student, or as a postdoc more than four years ago, per NOT-OD-10-019 the NIH requires that the trainee re-take an ethics course that meets all of its requirements. Online courses alone do not meet the requirements. Trainees must provide the GCC with a transcript, certificate, or other form of proof of completion of an approved course. If a trainee has not taken a course that meets all of the requirements (including time), s/he is required to complete it within the first year of appointment. 


    The following are approved Responsible Conduct of Research courses:  

     

    1. BCM: Grad 513 Science as a Profession - or the Ethics for Postdocs course
    2. UTHSC-H: GS1 10051 The Ethical Dimensions of the Biomedical Sciences or the Postdoctoral ethics course
    3. Rice University: UNIV 594 Training in the Responsible Conduct of Research - pre- and postdocs; formerly called BIOS/BIOE 594
    4. UTMB: MEHU 6101 Ethics in Scientific Research - pre- and psotdocs
    5. Only if the other courses are unavailable - BCM: Fundamentals of Clinical Investigation (ethics module only).      

     

     

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    Electives:

    Below are examples of recommended electives.  

    Quality and Safety Electives  

    • HI 5302 Cognitive Science in Health Informatics   
    • HI 5303 Decision Making in Health Care  
    • HI 5350 Evaluation of Health Care Systems  
    • HI 5301 Information Systems in the Delivery of Health Care  
    • HI 5354 Cognitive Engineering in Health Informatics I  
    • HI 6001 Special Topics: Clinical Datamining  
    • HI 6001 Special Topics: Reasoning and Decision Making  
    • HI 6301 Health Data Display  
    • HI 6305 Social Dynamics and Health Information  
    • HI 6307 Cognitive Engineering in Health Informatics II  
    • HI 6309 Healthcare Interface Design  
    • MS Observational Studies  
    • MS Interventional Studies  
    • MS Health Services Research  
    • Psyc 521 Perception  
    • Psyc 522 Information Processing and Attention   
    • Psyc 524 Memory   
    • Psyc 527 Thinking   
    • Psyc 541 Human Computer Interaction   
    • Psyc 640 Topics in Human Factors/HCI (Methods)   
    • PMCH 6330 Introduction to Epidemiology  

    Other Electives

    • HI 5001 Special Topics: Introduction to Health Data and Electronic Health Records  
    • HI 5001 Special Topics: Scientific Visualization  
    • HI 5001 Principles of Public Health Informatics  
    • HI 5002 Directed Study in Health Informatics  
    • HI 5304 Advanced Database Concepts  
    • HI 5307 Systems Analysis for Health Informatics  
    • HI 5308 Introduction to Object-Oriented Systems Development in HealthInformatics  
    • HI 5353 Health Informatics Data Analysis  
    • HI 6300 Advanced Health Information SystemsHI 6302 Knowledge Modeling and Engineering in Health Informatics I  
    • HI 6303 Introduction to Telehealth  
    • HI 6306 Comparative Taxonomy  
    • HI 6308 Consumer Informatics  
    • HI 6311 Advanced Decision Analysis I  
    • HI 6351 Knowledge Acquisition  
    • HI 7050 Research in Health Informatics  
    • HI 7150 Research Seminar  
    • HI 7200 Supervised Research  
    • MS Literature Appraisal  
    • MS Research Seminars  
    • PMCH 6401 Issues in Preventive Medicine and Community Health - Survey and Analysis  

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