Barbara Rosen
Administrator
Program in Clinical Effectiveness
Division of General Medicine, A-3
Brigham and Women's Hospital
75 Francis Street Boston,
MA 02115, USA
Tel: 617 732-5648
Fax: 617 732-5344
E-mail: brosen@partners.org

A joint program of:
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Massachusetts General Hospital
Harvard Medical School
and
Harvard School of Public Health

The Program in Clinical Effectiveness is designed for clinicians seeking the qualtitative and analytic skills needed for clinical research or health care administration. The program begins with and intensive seven-week 15 credit summer program, which contains summer-long core courses in Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics. All participants also select two half-summer courses from offerings in Decision Analysis, Current Issues in Health Policy, Medical Informatics, Health Care Ethics, Quality Improvement in Health Care, Development of Questionnaires to Measure the Outcomes of Health Care, Implementing Prevention, and Survey of Methods and Applications in Health Services Research. For students with previous experience, second level courses are also offered in Analytic Issues of Clinical Epidemiology, Principles of Clinical Trials, and Survival Methods in Clinical Research.

Students are limited to 15 credits for a single summer but can take additional courses in a second summer. Qualified participants may also take additional courses during the regular academic year at the Harvard School of Public Health.

The Program in Clinical Effectiveness has students from all over the world and in all clinical specialties. Information about scholarships is available through the contact person, Barbara Rosen.

For additional information, see the Harvard CERTC part of the CanUSACLEN Website: http://www.canusaclen.org