Program Overview

Program Overview

The Master of Science (M.Sc.) in Experimental Medicine (Thesis) is a research-intensive program offered by the Division of Clinical and Translational Research in the Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences. The program's objective is to equip students with skills in research methodology, critical thinking, and scientific communication to either continue their studies or pursue professional opportunities.

Program Description

The program may also be taken as one of the following options:

• Bioethics option : allows students to conduct innovative research in relation to a bioethical issue pertinent to health care, and to acquire a working knowledge of bioethical issues from the current viewpoint of other relevant disciplines such as law, philosophy, and religious studies.
• Digital Health Innovation option : focuses on the basics of clinical epidemiology, medical artificial intelligence, clinical innovation, and applied data science, including the use and generation of digitized health and social data using specialized software.
• Environment option : offered in collaboration with the Bieler School of Environment, the program considers how various dimensions (scientific, social, legal, ethical) interact to define environment and sustainability issues.

Unique Program Features

• Full-time graduate students will receive funding to support for their living expenses, tuition and fees;
• Students pursue cutting-edge medical research in a unique setting in which Ph.D. and M.D. researchers collaborate, favouring translational research into the pathogenesis and treatment of diseases;
• The Department offers world-class translational research opportunities in an interdisciplinary setting which includes areas such as endocrinology, hematology; cardiology, oncology, gastroenterology, genetics, infectious diseases;
• The internationally recognized high-quality training our graduates receive is in essence what distinguishes graduates of our programs from the graduates of comparable programs in peer institutions.

University-Level Admission Requirements

• An eligible Bachelor's degree with a minimum 3.0 GPA out of a possible 4.0 GPA
• English-language proficiency

Available Intakes

• Fall
• Winter

Application Deadlines

Intake | Applications Open | Application Deadline - International | Application Deadline - Domestic (Canadian, Permanent Resident of Canada)
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FALL | September 15 | January 15 | June 15
WINTER | February 15 | August 1 | November 1
SUMMER | N/A | N/A | N/A

Research Areas

The program focuses on the following research areas:

• fundamental and translational research
• cancer
• digital health/epidemiology
• immunology
• respiratory and cardiac diseases
• gastric and renal diseases
• neuroscience
• ethics
• bioethics
• health policy
• human subjects
• biomedicine
• health inequalities
• experimental medicine
• clinical research
• digital health
• basic science.