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Created Date : Tuesday, October 23, 2018   Update Date : Thursday, November 1, 2018   

Total Course Credits

  • Core: 20
  • Non-core (Electives): 8
  • Dissertation (PhD): 20

Following Table illustrates all the courses for the PhD program. Remedial Courses are necessary for students who have not been previously completed. Students should pass at least 16 remedial course credits from these courses as specified by the Department of Education and approved by the Postgraduate Education Council.

 

 

Title of the Course

Number of Credit

Total Hours

Theoretical

Practical

Total

Theoretical

Practical

Total

Remedial Courses

1

Medical Information Retrieval Skills

0.5

0.5

1

9

17

26

2

Principles of Epidemiology

2

-

2

34

-

34

3

Statistics and Research Methodology

1

1

2

17

34

51

4

Principles of Management

2

-

2

34

-

34

5

Introduction to Information Engineering

2

1

3

34

34

68

6

General Medicine

3

-

3

51

-

51

7

Data Structure and Programming

2

1

3

34

34

68

8

General Mathematics

2

-

2

34

-

34

 

 

Total of Remedial Courses

14.5

3.5

18

247

119

366

Core Courses

9

Data Security and Privacy and Ethics in Medical Informatics

1

-

1

17

-

17

10

Advanced Statistic and Epidemiology

1.5

0.5

2

26

17

43

11

Health Informatics

2

-

2

34

-

34

12

Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining in Medical Databases

2

1

3

34

34

68

13

Artificial Intelligence

1.5

0.5

2

26

17

43

14

Health Information Systems

1.5

0.5

2

26

17

43

15

Clinical Decision Making and Decision Support Systems

2

-

2

34

-

34

16

Evaluation methods in Health Informatics

1.5

0.5

2

26

17

43

17

Classification and Organization of Information: Taxonomy and Ontology Knowledge

1

 -

1

-

34

34

18

Modeling and Work Flows Analysis

1.5

0.5

2

26

17

43

19

Seminar

-

1

1

-

34

34

20

PhD Dissertation

-

20

20

-

-

-

 

 

Total of Core Courses

15.5

24.5

40

249

187

436

Noncore Courses

21

Application of New Technologies in Medicine

1

1

2

17

34

51

22

Intelligent Miner in Medicine  

2

-

2

34

-

34

23

Health Information Standards

2

-

2

34

-

34

24

E-Learning and Knowledge Transfer in Medical Informatics

1.5

0.5

2

26

17

43

25

Research Methods and Tools in Medical Informatics

1.5

0.5

2

26

17

43

26

Project Management to Implement  Information Systems

2

-

2

34

-

34

27

Principles of Medical Software and System Design

1.5

0.5

2

26

17

43

28

Telemedicine

1.5

0.5

2

26

17

43

 

 

Total of Non-Core Courses

13

3

16

223

102

325