Program Requirements

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This M.Sc. in Experimental Surgery (Non鈥怲hesis) offers a graduate鈥恖evel training program in core fundamentals of modern surgical research. The program is based primarily on academic course work and short projects. It is designed to be flexible and provide students the opportunity to gain core disciplines whilst allowing training opportunities in more specific areas such as global surgery, innovation, education, or as the interest of the students dictates. The individual research interests of the faculty cover a wide spectrum, from injury, repair, recovery, tissue engineering, transplantation, fibrosis, cancer and stem cell biology, biomechanics, and organ failure, to surgical simulation, surgical innovation, education, and evaluative/outcomes research. Importantly, the project(s) is performed in a collaborative spirit with basic and clinician scientists working together using interdisciplinary approaches to solve the most challenging problems in the field of surgery. Upon graduation, students will have acquired core skills on statistics, knowledge management, biomedical research, epidemiology as well as education, global surgery, and innovation.

Required Courses (12 credits)

• EXSU 500 Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (3 credits)
• EXSU 602 Knowledge Management 2 (3 credits)
• EXSU 623 Surgery Research Project 2 (6 credits)

Complementary Courses (24 credits)

3 credits selected from:

• EDPE 575 Statistics for Practitioners (3 credits)
• EPIB 507 Biostats for Health Sciences (3 credits)
• EXSU 606 Statistics for Surgical Research (3 credits)

Or 3 credits of a research design or statistics course at the 500 level or higher.

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3 credits selected from:

• EXSU 603 Surgical Education Foundations (3 credits)
• FMED 525 Foundations of Translational Science (3 credits)

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6 credits selected from the following*:

• EDPE 637 Issues in Health Professions Education (3 credits)
• EDPH 689 Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (3 credits)
• EPIB 521 Regression Analysis for Health Sciences (3 credits)
• EXSU 505 Trends in Precision Oncology (3 credits)
• EXSU 620 Surgical Innovation 1 (3 credits)
• EXSU 621 Surgical Innovation 2 (3 credits)
• PPHS 528 Economic Evaluation of Health Programs (3 credits)

*Note: Students either take听EDPE 637听and听EDPH 689; or听EPIB 521听and听PPHS 528; or听EXSU 620听and听EXSU 621; or听EXSU 505听and any course in the course grouping available in a given year if the number of registered students has not exceeded the projected enrolment.

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12 credits selected from:

• BMDE 653 Patents in Biomedical Engineering (3 credits)
• BMDE 654 Biomedical Regulatory Affairs - Medical Devices (3 credits)
• BMDE 655 Biomedical Clinical Trials - Medical Devices (3 credits)
• DENT 669 Extracellular Matrix Biology (3 credits)
• EDPE 637 Issues in Health Professions Education (3 credits)
• EDPE 687 Qualitative Methods in Educational Psychology (3 credits)
• EDPH 689 Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (3 credits)
• EPIB 681 Global Health: Epidemiological Research (3 credits)
• EXMD 609 Cellular Methods in Medical Research (3 credits)
• EXMD 610 Molecular Methods in Medical Research (3 credits)
• EXSU 501 Medical Technology Internship 1 (6 credits)
• EXSU 601 Knowledge Management 1 (3 credits)
• EXSU 605 Biomedical Research Innovation (3 credits)
• EXSU 620 Surgical Innovation 1 (3 credits)
• EXSU 621 Surgical Innovation 2 (3 credits)
• EXSU 622D1 Surgery Research Project 1 (6 credits)
• EXSU 622D2 Surgery Research Project 1 (6 credits)
• EXSU 684 Signal Transduction (3 credits)
• FMED 619 Program Management in Global Health and Primary Health Care (3 credits)
• PHGY 518 Artificial Cells (3 credits)
• PHGY 550 Molecular Physiology of Bone (3 credits)
• PPHS 511 Fundamentals of Global Health (3 credits)
• PPHS 529 Global Environmental Health and Burden of Disease (3 credits)

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Elective Courses (9 credits)

9 credits taken from 500-, 600-, or 700-level courses at the University, which may include courses from the list above, will be taken with the approval of the director of the program/adviser.

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