Clinical Science (CLSC)
Collaborative offering with Denver Campus, emphasizing information requirements analysis, logical system specification, detailed system design. Topics include structured system development methodologies, prototyping, file design, systems architecture, systems testing, software design strategies. Students use case tool to develop system specifications.. Crosslisted: ISMG 6060.
Grading Basis: Letter Grade
A-GRAD Restricted to graduate students only.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.
Offered as a collaborative offering with UCD, this course focuses on the development and management of database systems to support business operations. Important subjects include semantic data modeling, normalization, SQL, fourth generation languages, and client-server database applications. Crosslisted: ISMG 6080.
Grading Basis: Letter Grade
A-GRAD Restricted to graduate students only.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.
This course provides an overview of the types of clinical translational studies being conducted by senior CLSC doctoral students. The interactive seminar series structure allows for interdisciplinary scientific dialogue among students at various stages of training, mentors and faculty.
Grading Basis: Letter Grade with IP
Repeatable. Max Credits: 3.
A-GRAD Restricted to graduate students only.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.
The course focuses on community-based participatory research, community engagement and understanding health disparities through a community immersion experience. Restrictions: Students need to contact the CLSC program prior to registering.
Grading Basis: Letter Grade
Typically Offered: Summer.
Course is for investigators conducting clinical trials. Course covers good clinical practices/regulations that surround setting up and running clinical trials. Clinical studies and popular press articles highlighting what can go wrong in clinical trials will be reviewed and discussed.
Grading Basis: Letter Grade
A-GRAD Restricted to graduate students only.
Typically Offered: Summer.
This course provides an overview of the approaches for critically appraising common study designs published in the clinical and translational sciences literature, as well as other sources of information.
Grading Basis: Letter Grade
A-GRAD Restricted to graduate students only.
Typically Offered: Fall.
Students will understand and participate in the process of scientific review of human subject research protocols submitted to the University of Colorado Denver Clinical Translational Research Centers at University Hospital and The Children’s Hospital. Prereq: BIOS 6601, BIOS 6602 (or BIOS 6611, BIOS 6612) & CLSC 7500.
Grading Basis: Letter Grade
A-GRAD Restricted to graduate students only.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring.
Introduction to allow clinician-scientists to be critical consumers of medical literature by improving their ability to discuss statistical issues about their own research and research of others. Familiarity will be gained with commonly used statistical methods and statistical terms.
Grading Basis: Letter Grade
A-GRAD Restricted to graduate students only.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring.
This course provides an in-depth examination of study designs, comparative effectiveness research, and qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods approaches to dissemination and implementation research. The focus is application to health care and public health settings.
Grading Basis: Letter Grade
Typically Offered: Fall.
This course provides an in-depth examination of qualitative and mixed methods approaches that are pertinent to health research.
Grading Basis: Letter Grade
Typically Offered: Spring.
Course covers power and sample size methods for longitudinal and multilevel study designs. Software used for this course is free, open-source, web-tablet and smart phone-based (www.glimmpse.SampleSizeShop.org). This is a three-day intensive and interactive course with online discussion the two weeks following the intensive. Prerequisites: BIOS 6601 and BIOS 6602 or equivalent applied statistic courses.
Grading Basis: Letter Grade
Typically Offered: Spring.
This is a seminar series covering regulatory requirements and best practices related to FDA audits, billing, collaborative/team research, and distinguishing research from quality improvement projects. Prerequisites: For students with no clinical research experience, it is recommended they take “Getting Started: your introduction to Clinical Research” a 3 hr. lecture as one of their optional lectures, preferably before the course starts or within first 2 months of the course.
Grading Basis: Letter Grade
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring.
This course provides an overview of epidemiology, logistic regression, and survival analysis, techniques that apply to many areas of clinical research. Coreq: CLSC 6606 (BIOS 6606) Restrictions: Enrollment in CLSC graduate program or permission of the instructor.
Grading Basis: Letter Grade
Typically Offered: Spring.
An independent study course developed by the student and the appropriate faculty member based on the area of study. Students meet regularly with the selected course instructor, the student and course instructor will develop a course plan prior to registration.
Grading Basis: Letter Grade
Repeatable. Max Credits: 3.
A-GRAD Restricted to graduate students only.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.
Course represents part one of two-part interdisciplinary course series focused on systems, options for diagnosis/assessment and alternatives for service provision related to children/youth/young adults with neurodevelopmental and related disabilities and their families to address this population's special health care needs. Prereq: A degree in healthcare profession or related field or instructor consent.
Grading Basis: Letter Grade
A-GRAD Restricted to graduate students only.
Typically Offered: Fall.
This course represents part two of a two-part interdisciplinary course series focused on service provision, intervention strategies and service provision related to children/youth/young adults with neurodevelopmental and related disabilities and their families to address this population's special health care needs. Prereq: A degree in health care profession or related field or instructor consent and completion of CLSC 6653.
Grading Basis: Letter Grade
A-GRAD Restricted to graduate students only.
Typically Offered: Spring.
Online course will introduce the subject of cultural/social determinants of maternal and child health in the present society, including worldviews on health perspectives (wellness versus illness), and address the impact of emerging demographic changes on systems of care. Prereq: A degree in health care profession or related field or instructor consent.
Grading Basis: Letter Grade
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.
Part one of a two-part course series that will examine the theory and research relevant to the assessment of early parent-child relationships as well as the clinical application for interventions across disciplines that are intended to promote/improve child health outcomes. Prereq: A degree in health care profession or related field or instructor consent.
Grading Basis: Letter Grade
Typically Offered: Fall.
Part two of a two-part course that will examine research relevant to assessment of early parent/child relationships, identify intervention strategies by analyzing observational findings, as well as evaluate effectiveness of interventions across disciplines intended to promote/improve child health outcomes. Prereq: A degree in health care profession or related field or instructor consent. Completion of CLSC 6658.
Grading Basis: Letter Grade
Typically Offered: Spring.
Grading Basis: Letter Grade
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.
This interdisciplinary leadership course focuses on leadership strategies needed for providing family-centered, culturally competent, community-based services for children with special needs and their families. Prereq: A degree in health care profession or related field or instructor consent.
Grading Basis: Letter Grade
A-GRAD Restricted to graduate students only.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.
This interdisciplinary leadership course focuses becoming change agents to better provide family-centered, culturally competent, community-based services for children with special needs and their families. Prereq: a degree in health care profession or related field or instructor consent. CLSC 6661
Grading Basis: Letter Grade
A-GRAD Restricted to graduate students only.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring.
This interdisciplinary course reviews evidence-based practices in intervention for children with autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders, presented through lectures, critical readings of the literature, case discussions, and case presentations. Prereq: Degree in health care profession or related field or consent of instructor.
Grading Basis: Letter Grade
A-GRAD Restricted to graduate students only.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.
This interdisciplinary leadership course focuses on leadership strategies needed for provided family- centered, culturally competent, community-based services for children with special needs and their families. Prereq: Degree in health care profession or related field or consent of instructor. Restrictions: Nursing only.
Grading Basis: Letter Grade
Typically Offered: Fall.
Leadership Dialogues IV builds upon skills addressed in Leadership Dialogues III with the addition of content that integrates critical and systems thinking and ethical decision making with the leadership and team concepts and skills developed in LD III. Prereq: Degree in health care profession or related field or consent of instructor and CLSC 6664. Restrictions: Nursing only.
Grading Basis: Letter Grade
Typically Offered: Spring.
This interdisciplinary course presents best practices in screening/assessment for autism, focusing on: identification of symptoms of autism; differentation of autism from other disorders; recognition of symptoms; examination of culture on clinical presentation; and approaches to share observations. prereq: a degree in health care profession or related fields (or consent of instructor).
Grading Basis: Letter Grade
A-GRAD Restricted to graduate students only.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.
During course students working with his/her research mentor and research project committee to plan, execute, write Final Research Project in form of a publishable paper. In addition, students prepare for Final Research Project Examination. This is a capstone course. Prerequisite: Consent of program. BIOS 6601 and BIOS 6602 or BIOS 6611 and BIOS 6612, CLSC 7150, EPID 6630.
Grading Basis: Letter Grade with IP
Repeatable. Max Credits: 6.
A-GRAD Restricted to graduate students only.
Additional Information: Report as Full Time.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.
This course is one of three that focuses on dissemination and implementation research. This course reviews the organization and financing of interventions for health care systems and public health systems. The role of ethics, evidence and health equity are examined.
Grading Basis: Letter Grade
Typically Offered: Summer.
This course provides an in-depth examination of issues in submitting successful grant proposals in Dissemination & Implementation research. The course will build upon good general practices in grant and manuscript preparation and submission.
Grading Basis: Letter Grade
Typically Offered: Summer.
Course intended as overview to dynamic environment of healthcare informatics. The goal of course is to prepare healthcare professionals to better utilize/manage the emerging communication technologies. A brief introduction to e-health, telehealth, electronic medical records, telecommunications and bio-informatics is provided.
Grading Basis: Letter Grade
A-GRAD Restricted to graduate students only.
Typically Offered: Spring.
This course will provide an introduction to management of information technology in healthcare. A description of information processing, the origin, content and evolution of healthcare information systems and the methodologies deployed to acquire and manage information requirements will be discussed. Crosslisted: HLTH 6072.
Grading Basis: Letter Grade
A-GRAD Restricted to graduate students only.
Typically Offered: Fall.
Provides an overview of intermediate and advanced dissemination and implementation (D&I) science research methods in a small group discussion format. This interactive seminar series structure allows for interdisciplinary scientific dialogue among students at various stages.
Grading Basis: Letter Grade
Repeatable. Max Credits: 2.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring.
During this course students plan, execute, and write the Final Research Project in the form of a Masters thesis. In addition, students will prepare for the Final Research Project Examination. This is a capstone course. Prerequesites: Consent of program, BIOS 6601, BIOS 6602, CLSC 7150, EPID 6630.
Grading Basis: Letter Grade with IP
Repeatable. Max Credits: 6.
A-GRAD Restricted to graduate students only.
Additional Information: Report as Full Time.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.
The purpose of this course is to develop and improve your skills in writing successful grant applications and participating in the critique and review process of grants. Prerequisites: BIOS 6601 and EPID 6630. Course Restrictions: CLSC students, unless written approval of Course Director.
Grading Basis: Letter Grade
Repeatable. Max Credits: 3.
A-GRAD Restricted to graduate students only.
Typically Offered: Spring.
The purpose of this course is to develop and improve your skills in writing successful grant applications and participating in the critique and review process of grants. Prerequisites: BIOS 6601, EPID 6630, CLSC 7101. Course Restrictions: CLSC students, unless written approval of Course Director.
Grading Basis: Letter Grade
A-GRAD Restricted to graduate students only.
Typically Offered: Spring.
Course provides overview of the field of ethics in clinical research. Topics include historical background, current regulations, IRB requirements on human subjects protection issues. Students will learn how to develop approaches to conduct ethical human subjects research in an optimal manner.
Grading Basis: Letter Grade
A-GRAD Restricted to graduate students only.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.
This course focuses on research methodologies in clinical care, costs, health systems, policy, and health outcomes, as well as an overview of major issues in clinical outcomes research. Students are provided with both theory and application through case studies.
Grading Basis: Letter Grade
A-GRAD Restricted to graduate students only.
Typically Offered: Fall.
Students will understand and participate in the process of scientific review of human subject research protocols submitted to the University of Colorado Denver Clinical Translational Research Centers at University Hospital and the Children's Hospital. Prereq: BIOS 6601 BIOS 6602 or BIOS 6611 and BIOS 6612.
Grading Basis: Letter Grade
A-GRAD Restricted to graduate students only.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring.
Designed to teach clinical investigators basic molecular and cellular biology techniques. Format will be hands-on with lectures designed to illustrate significance and clinical application of techniques. Weekly special topics lectures will cover cutting-edge technologies and their application.
Grading Basis: Letter Grade
A-GRAD Restricted to graduate students only.
Typically Offered: Summer.
This is an independent study course developed by student and appropriate faculty member based on area of study. Students meet regularly with selected course instructor. The student and course instructor will develop course plan prior to registration of the course. Prereq: Consent of program approved course plan closed registration.
Grading Basis: Letter Grade
Repeatable. Max Credits: 3.
A-GRAD Restricted to graduate students only.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.
Introduces dissemination and implementation (D&I) research and practice in the context of health (i.e. translational research in health). This is a graduate level course and students should have a working understanding of study designs and statistics.
Grading Basis: Letter Grade
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring.
This course covers concepts, frameworks, and methods for understanding and assessing context and guiding adaptations as relevant to dissemination and implementation (D&I) health research and practice. Prerequisite - CLSC 7653.
Grading Basis: Letter Grade
Typically Offered: Spring.
This course involves the student working with his/her research mentor and research project committee develop, design and execute a clinical science doctoral study as well as to write up the project as a thesis. Prerequesite: Program consent. BIOS 6601 or BIOS 6611, BIOS 6602 or BIOS 6680 and HSMP 6617, CLSC 7150, EPID 6630, BIOS 6648 or EPID 6626 or HSMP 6670. Restrictions: Only CLSC PhD students or collaborative CLSC and CSPH Health Services Research Students.
Grading Basis: Letter Grade with IP
Repeatable. Max Credits: 99.
A-GRAD Restricted to graduate students only.
Additional Information: Report as Full Time.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.