Ethics
Introduction to Research
Biostatistics
- QBS 119 Applied Biostatistics OR QBS 120 Foundations of Biostatistics I: Statistical Theory
- QBS 121 Foundations of Biostatistics II: Regression Modeling
Bioinformatics
- QBS 146 Foundations of Bioinformatics I
- Choose one of the following:
- QBS 108 Applied Machine Learning
- QBS 126 Analysis of Densely Collected Longitudinal Data
- QBS 139 Advanced Methods in Health Services Research
- QBS 140 Decision & Cost-Effective Analysis
- QBS 148 Introduction to Statistical Genetics
Epidemiology
Journal clubs
QBS Journal club offerings
- QBS 193 Independent Journal Club (0.5 unit)
- QBS 194 Biostatistics Journal Club (0.5 unit)
- QBS 270 QBS Journal Club: Epidemiology (0.5 unit)
- QBS 270 QBS Journal Club: Bioinformatics (0.5 unit)
- QBS 270 QBS Journal Club: Biostatistics (0.5 unit)
- QBS 271 Advanced Epidemiology Journal Club (0.5 unit)
Additional journal club offerings
- BIOL 265 Microbial Ecology and Environmental Biology
- BIOL 268 Genes and Gene Products
- COSC 189 Topics in Applied Computer Science
- ENGG 260 Advances in Biotechnology
- GENE 261 Cancer Biology
- MICR 264 and 265 Microbiology and Immunology - Graduate Research Colloquium
Supervised teaching
Graduate research
- QBS 187 QBS PhD Student Internship
- QBS 197 Graduate Research in Quantitative Biomedical Sciences I
- QBS 198 Graduate Research in Quantitative Biomedical Sciences II
- QBS 199 Graduate Research in Quantitative Biomedical Sciences III
- QBS 297 Advanced Graduate Research in Quantitative Biomedical Sciences I
- QBS 298 Advanced Graduate Research in Quantitative Biomedical Sciences II
- QBS 299 Advanced Graduate Research in Quantitative Biomedical Sciences III
Limits and requirements
- QBS 270 Quantitative Biomedical Sciences Journal Club is required for PhD students in their first year.
- Nine journal club courses are required.
- QBS 700 Responsible and Ethical Conduct of Research does not count toward the units of coursework required for the PhD degree.
- Students who matriculate Fall 2021 and beyond may not take more than 4 units of coursework per quarter unless approved by QBS administration and leadership. For the Fall quarter, this unit limit does not count pre-term courses QBS 103 Foundations of Data Science, QBS 700 Responsible and Ethical Conduct of Research, and QBS 110 Integrative Biomedical Sciences Seminar.