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Program Requirements

The MSc in Family Medicine; Medical Education option is a thesis option graduate program designed to provide research training to family physicians, and exceptionally other health professionals and other students interested in family medicine education research. This MSc Option has very close ties to the Family Medicine Educational Research Group (FMER), which integrates family medicine researchers deeply committed to the development of the family medicine education field of inquiry. The FMER’s ultimate goal is to advance knowledge to: (1) constantly inform family medicine curricula innovations and continuing professional development to better family physicians’ clinical practice, (2) significantly contribute to the development of the family medicine education field of inquiry, and (3) rigorously develop and inform medical education policy. This research agenda of FMER is articulated into four interrelated streams: (1) family physicians’ professional identity formation; (2) information use and technology in the learning episodes of practicing physicians and organizational learning; (3) mentoring in family medicine education, and (4) knowledge synthesis.

Thesis Courses (24 credits)

Thesis subject should be related to medical education.

• FMED 697 Master's Thesis Research 1 (12 credits)

  Offered by: Family Medicine (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences)

  Administered by: Graduate Studies

  Overview

  Family Medicine : Independent work under the direction of a supervisor in a designated area of research.

  Terms: Fall 2018, Winter 2019

  Instructors: Bartlett-Esquilant, Gillian (Fall) Bartlett-Esquilant, Gillian (Winter)

  • Restriction(s): Open only to students registered in the M.Sc in Family Medicine program.

• FMED 698 Master's Thesis Research 2 (12 credits)

  Offered by: Family Medicine (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences)

  Administered by: Graduate Studies

  Overview

  Family Medicine : Independent work under the direction of a supervisor in a designated area of research.

  Terms: Fall 2018, Winter 2019

  Instructors: Bartlett-Esquilant, Gillian (Fall) Bartlett-Esquilant, Gillian (Winter)

  • Restriction(s): Open only to students registered in the M.Sc in Family Medicine program.

Required Courses (13 credits)

• FMED 505 Basic Analysis for Health Data (3 credits)

  Offered by: Family Medicine (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences)

  Overview

  Family Medicine : Basic principles of statistical inference applicable to clinical family medicine research and other health research. Topics include descriptive statistics, correlation, probability, inference, regression, and program evaluation.

  Terms: Fall 2018

  Instructors: Schuster, Tibor (Fall)

  • Open to all graduate students in Faculty of Medicine.

  • Priority to students registered in the MSc in Family Medicine program.

• FMED 509 Foundations of Epidemiology in Family Medicine (3 credits)

  Offered by: Family Medicine (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences)

  Overview

  Family Medicine : Essential epidemiological concepts and modern epidemiological methods such as epidemiology in planning, random and systematic errors, causality, measures of association, bias, confounding, effect modification, observational design, randomized controlled trials, and sampling strategies.

  Terms: Fall 2018

  Instructors: De Pokomandy, Alexandra; Barnett, Tracie (Fall)

  • Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor.

  • Restrictions: Preference will be given to graduate students in family Medicine and Dentistry.

  • Language of Instruction: English.

• FMED 600 Mixed Studies Reviews (1 credit)

  Offered by: Family Medicine (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences)

  Administered by: Graduate Studies

  Overview

  Family Medicine : Literature reviews of qualitative, quantitative and mixed-methods studies (epistemological issues, evaluation/research questions, identification of publications, selection of relevant studies, appraisal of methodological quality and synthesis of results).

  Terms: Summer 2019

  Instructors: Vedel, Isabelle (Summer)

  • Prerequisite: 1 course in mixed methods (e.g., DENT 672); OR 1 course in qualitative methods (e.g., PSYT 625) and 1 course in quantitative methods (any introductory course in epidemiology); OR permission of the instructor

  • Intensive summer course; open to graduate and post-graduate students; contact hours: Monday to Friday from 9:00 am to 12:00 pm (Department of Family Medicine, 5858 Cote des Neiges Road, Suite 300, Montreal, QC H3S1Z1); enrolment limitations: health-related review (all disciplines) and research background (at least 1 course in mixed methods OR 1 course in qualitative and 1 course in quantitative methods); language of instruction: English.

• FMED 603 Foundations of Participatory Research (1 credit)

  Offered by: Family Medicine (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences)

  Administered by: Graduate Studies

  Overview

  Family Medicine : Principles and main applications of modern participatory research in health organizations.

  Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2018-2019 academic year.

  Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2018-2019 academic year.

  • Prerequisite: Permission of instructor if graduate student is outside the department.

  • Restriction: Only open to graduate students in the Department of Family Medicine.

• FMED 614 Foundations of Mixed Methods Research (1 credit)

  Offered by: Family Medicine (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences)

  Administered by: Graduate Studies

  Overview

  Family Medicine : Basic training in how to conduct mixed methods research and the most common types of mixed methods research designs.

  Terms: Winter 2019

  Instructors: Vedel, Isabelle; Pluye, Pierre (Winter)

  • Language of Instruction: English.

  • Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor.

  • Office hours: Tuesdays 12:00 to 2:00 pm

• FMED 616 Applied Literature Reviews (1 credit)

  Offered by: Family Medicine (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences)

  Administered by: Graduate Studies

  Overview

  Family Medicine : How to conduct a rigorous literature review in the context of primary care with an opportunity to develop an outline of a literature review section of one’s thesis or to develop a protocol for a systematic review.

  Terms: Fall 2018

  Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2018-2019 academic year.

  • Language of Instruction: English Office hours: Tuesdays 12:00 to 2:00

• FMED 625 Qualitative Health Research (3 credits)

  Offered by: Family Medicine (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences)

  Administered by: Graduate Studies

  Overview

  Family Medicine : Discussion and practice of qualitative methodologies for conducting rigorous and reflective qualitative research projects with a family medicine and primary health care focus, including ethnographic fieldwork and community interviews.

  Terms: Fall 2018

  Instructors: Rodriguez, Rosario (Fall)

  • Course will be given in English. Course work may be submitted in English or French.

  • Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken or are taking PSYT 625. Must obtain instructor's approval to register for the course. Open to students with Bachelor’s degrees in Health or Social Science.

Elective Courses (8 credits)

8 credits at the 600 level or higher, chosen in consultation with the student’s academic supervisor, of which 6 credits must involve educational issues and relate to the student’s thesis topic within the medical education field – most of these courses are offered by the Faculty of Education. The additional 2 credits may be completed in any department at McGill.