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Master of Science (M.Sc.) Dental Sciences (Non-Thesis) (45 credits)

Offered by: Dental Med & Oral Health Sci     Degree: Master of Science

Program Requirements

The Master of Science (M.Sc.) Dental Sciences; Non-Thesis program focuses on theoretical and methodological foundations spanning multiple approaches to health research.

Required Courses (24 credits)

Complementary Courses (21 credits)

21 credits from the following:

  • ANAT 690D1 Cell and Developmental Biology (3 credits)

    Offered by: Anatomy and Cell Biology (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences)

    Administered by: Graduate Studies

    Overview

    Anatomy & Cell Biology : Current developments in molecular cell biology and developmental biology will be presented by course coordinators and staff from primary papers in the scientific literature. These will be researched and critiqued by students through oral and written presentations. Two term papers are required for students taking the course.

    Terms: Fall 2024

    Instructors: Guo, Shuaiqi; Autexier, Chantal; Lamarche, Nathalie; Reinhardt, Dieter; Bui, Khanh Huy; Zeytuni, Natalie (Fall)

  • ANAT 690D2 Cell and Developmental Biology (3 credits)

    Offered by: Anatomy and Cell Biology (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences)

    Administered by: Graduate Studies

    Overview

    Anatomy & Cell Biology : See ANAT 690D1 for course description.

    Terms: Winter 2025

    Instructors: Guo, Shuaiqi; Kennedy, Timothy E; Autexier, Chantal; Lamarche, Nathalie; McKee, Marc D; Presley, John; Stifani, Stefano; Mandato, Craig A.; Reinhardt, Dieter; Rocheleau, Christian (Winter)

    • Prerequisite: ANAT 690D1

    • No credit will be given for this course unless both ANAT 690D1 and ANAT 690D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms

  • BMDE 505 Cell and Tissue Engineering (3 credits)

    Offered by: Biomedical Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)

    Overview

    Biomedical Engineering : Application of the principles of engineering, physical, and biological sciences to modify and create cells and tissues for therapeutic applications will be discussed, as well as the industrial perspective and related ethical issues.

    Terms: Winter 2025

    Instructors: Prakash, Satya (Winter)

    • (3-0-6)

    • 1.5 hours lecture/1.5 hours seminar per week

    • Restriction: graduate and final year undergraduate students from physical, biological, and medical science, and engineering.

  • DENT 504 Biomaterials and Bioperformance (3 credits)

    Offered by: Dental Med & Oral Health Sci (Faculty of Dental Medicine and Oral Health Sciences)

    Overview

    Dentistry : Biological and synthetic biomaterials, medical devices, and the issues related to their bioperformance. The physicochemical characteristics of biomaterials in relation to their biocompatibility and sterilization.

    Terms: Winter 2025

    Instructors: Tabrizian, Maryam (Winter)

    • Restrictions: Graduate and final year undergraduates from physical, biological, medical and dental sciences, and engineering.

  • DENT 505 Epidemiology and Data Analysis in Primary Care 1 (3 credits)

    Offered by: Dental Med & Oral Health Sci (Faculty of Dental Medicine and Oral Health Sciences)

    Overview

    Dentistry : An introduction of epidemiological concepts, data analysis, and methods applicable to primary care research.

    Terms: Fall 2024

    Instructors: Nicolau, Belinda Farias; De Pokomandy, Alexandra; Barnett, Tracie; Arekunnath Madathil, Sreenath; Schuster, Tibor (Fall)

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

    • Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken or are taking FMED 505.

  • DENT 509 Epidemiology and Data Analysis in Primary Care 2 (3 credits)

    Offered by: Dental Med & Oral Health Sci (Faculty of Dental Medicine and Oral Health Sciences)

    Overview

    Dentistry : Intermediate epidemiological concepts, data analysis, and methods applicable to primary care research.

    Terms: Winter 2025

    Instructors: De Pokomandy, Alexandra; Nicolau, Belinda Farias; Barnett, Tracie; Arekunnath Madathil, Sreenath (Winter)

    • Prerequisite: DENT 505; permission of instructor if graduate student is outside the Faculty.

    • Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken or are taking FMED 509.

  • DENT 625 Applied Qualitative Health Research (3 credits)

    Offered by: Dental Med & Oral Health Sci (Faculty of Dental Medicine and Oral Health Sciences)

    Administered by: Graduate Studies

    Overview

    Dentistry : Foundations of qualitative health research through consideration of theory, initiation into fieldwork and the combination of pertinent theoretical and practical components.

    Terms: Winter 2025

    Instructors: Levine, Alissa (Winter)

  • DENT 654 Mechanisms and Management of Pain (3 credits)

    Offered by: Dental Med & Oral Health Sci (Faculty of Dental Medicine and Oral Health Sciences)

    Administered by: Graduate Studies

    Overview

    Dentistry : Presentation of the neurobiology of pain and analgesia, clinical pain conditions, basic and applied research methods in the study of pain, and the theory and practice of pain management. The course is designed for graduate students interested in pain mechanisms and clinical residents interested in pain management.

    Terms: Fall 2024

    Instructors: Martel, Marc; Velly, Ana Miriam (Fall)

    • Restriction: Open to all health professionals

  • DENT 664 Health Research Communications (1 credit)

    Offered by: Dental Med & Oral Health Sci (Faculty of Dental Medicine and Oral Health Sciences)

    Administered by: Graduate Studies

    Overview

    Dentistry : Practical training in written and oral communication skills for biomedical sciences and oral health research.

    Terms: Winter 2025

    Instructors: Martel, Marc; Kengne Talla, Pascaline (Winter)

    • Prerequisite(s): DENT 663 or permission of the instructor.

    • Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken DENT 564.

    • Students will participate in a series of lectures and workshops to develop and practice scientific writing and oral communication skills.

  • DENT 665 Leadership and Management Skills in Research (1 credit)

    Offered by: Dental Med & Oral Health Sci (Faculty of Dental Medicine and Oral Health Sciences)

    Administered by: Graduate Studies

    Overview

    Dentistry : Introduction to leadership theory, models and practice, as well as the development of project and time management skills, resource allocation, team and consensus building.

    Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.

    Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.

    • Restriction(s): Only open to students enrolled in the MSc Dental Sciences (Thesis), MSc Dental Sciences (Non-Thesis) or the Faculty of Dentistry's PhD program, or with permission of instructor.

  • DENT 669 Extracellular Matrix Biology (3 credits)

    Offered by: Dental Med & Oral Health Sci (Faculty of Dental Medicine and Oral Health Sciences)

    Administered by: Graduate Studies

    Overview

    Dentistry : Advanced topics on extracellular matrix biology with emphasis on matrix molecules and their effects on cell communication, tissue structure and integrity.

    Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.

    Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.

  • DENT 681 Readings in Dentistry and Health Research 1 (1 credit)

    Offered by: Dental Med & Oral Health Sci (Faculty of Dental Medicine and Oral Health Sciences)

    Administered by: Graduate Studies

    Overview

    Dentistry : Advanced readings in student's area of research.

    Terms: Fall 2024, Winter 2025

    Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.

    • Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructors.

    • Restriction(s): Open to students enrolled in a graduate program at the Faculty of Dentistry. In some circumstances, it may be opened to students from another Faculty.

  • DENT 682 Readings in Dentistry and Health Research 2 (2 credits)

    Offered by: Dental Med & Oral Health Sci (Faculty of Dental Medicine and Oral Health Sciences)

    Administered by: Graduate Studies

    Overview

    Dentistry : Advanced readings in student's area of research.

    Terms: Fall 2024, Winter 2025

    Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.

  • DENT 683 Readings in Dentistry and Health Research 3 (3 credits)

    Offered by: Dental Med & Oral Health Sci (Faculty of Dental Medicine and Oral Health Sciences)

    Administered by: Graduate Studies

    Overview

    Dentistry : Advanced readings in student's area of research.

    Terms: Fall 2024, Winter 2025

    Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.

    • Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructors.

    • Restriction(s): Open to students enrolled in a graduate program at the Faculty of Dentistry. In some circumstances, it may be opened to students from another Faculty.

  • DENT 686 Illness Experience and Social Determinants of Health (2 credits)

    Offered by: Dental Med & Oral Health Sci (Faculty of Dental Medicine and Oral Health Sciences)

    Administered by: Graduate Studies

    Overview

    Dentistry : Exploration on the experience of illness and suffering, the social determinants of health, illness, access to care and broader contexts related to oral [and other] health. Critical reflection and challenge of assumptions in relation to the main themes.

    Terms: Winter 2025

    Instructors: Bedos, Christophe (Winter)

    • Prerequisite: Permission of instructor

    • Priority will be given to Dentistry graduate students; other students are requested to contact the instructor with an explanation of their interest in this course.

  • DENT 688 Bone Mechanobiology (3 credits)

    Offered by: Dental Med & Oral Health Sci (Faculty of Dental Medicine and Oral Health Sciences)

    Administered by: Graduate Studies

    Overview

    Dentistry : Foundational theories in mechanobiology in the context of skeletal tissues (namely, bone, growth plate cartilage, and periodontal tissues). Brief introduction to structure- function relations in bone, mechanical strain, and fluid flow. Emphasis is placed on the concepts of bone adaptation to biomechanical loading patterns, mechanobiology at the tissue level and mechanotransduction at the cellular level. Research methodologies and applications to disease are discussed.

    Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.

    Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.

  • EDEM 692 Qualitative Research Methods (3 credits)

    Offered by: Integrated Studies in Ed (Faculty of Education)

    Administered by: Graduate Studies

    Overview

    Admin & Policy Studies in Ed : Theoretical and practical exploration of the foundations of qualitative methods, with emphasis on underlying principles.

    Terms: Winter 2025

    Instructors: Boyle, Dale (Winter)

  • EPIB 635 Clinical Trials (3 credits)

    Offered by: Epidemiology and Biostatistics (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences)

    Administered by: Graduate Studies

    Overview

    Epidemiology & Biostatistics : Lectures and discussions on issues, approaches and techniques of clinical trials including assessment of feasibility, ethics, randomization, strengths and weaknesses of alternative designs, sample size requirements, protocol development, trial management and analysis, reporting and interpretation of trial results.

    Terms: Fall 2024

    Instructors: Golchi, Shirin (Fall)

  • EPIB 641 Substantive Epidemiology 1 (1 credit)

    Offered by: Epidemiology and Biostatistics (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences)

    Administered by: Graduate Studies

    Overview

    Epidemiology & Biostatistics : Designed to give students an overview of a major disease or health problem. Students will develop their knowledge of a topic regarding 1) key definitions, concepts and indicators useful in study of the problem; 2) epidemiology of problem; 3) major studies of interventions designed to address the problem. Topics currently offered include cancer, injury prevention and heart disease but not all are offered in each semester.

    Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.

    Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.

    • Due to the intensive nature of this course, the standard add/drop and withdrawal deadlines do not apply. Add/drop is the second lecture day and withdrawal is the third lecture day.

  • EPIB 669 Special Topics 2 (2 credits)

    Offered by: Epidemiology and Biostatistics (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences)

    Administered by: Graduate Studies

    Overview

    Epidemiology & Biostatistics : Study, through lectures, guided reading, practicals, assignments etc., of an elected and approved topic of epidemiologic importance.

    Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.

    Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.

    • **Although this course follows a Monday class lecture pattern, there will be a final assignment/exam due on Tuesday, June 30, 2020.

    • **Due to the intensive nature of this course, the standard add/drop and withdrawal deadlines do not apply. Add/drop is the second lecture day and withdrawal is the third lecture day.

  • EPIB 671 Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention (3 credits)

    Offered by: Epidemiology and Biostatistics (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences)

    Administered by: Graduate Studies

    Overview

    Epidemiology & Biostatistics : This course will explore the common epidemiologic approaches to studying etiologic relations in carcinogenesis and for assessing the efficacy of cancer prevention interventions. Emphasis will be given on both molecular and social epidemiology domains with examples of different study designs and data analysis methods and of the impact of measurement error and other biases.

    Terms: Fall 2024

    Instructors: Malag贸n, Tal铆a (Fall)

    • Prerequisite(s): EPIB 601 and EPIB 621, or equivalent, or permission of instructor.

  • EPIB 677 Special Topics 8 (3 credits)

    Offered by: Epidemiology and Biostatistics (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences)

    Administered by: Graduate Studies

    Overview

    Epidemiology & Biostatistics : Study, through lectures, guided reading, practicals, assignments etc., of an elected and approved topic of epidemiologic importance.

    Terms: Fall 2024

    Instructors: Basta, Nicole (Fall)

  • EPIB 679 Special Topics 10 (3 credits)

    Offered by: Epidemiology and Biostatistics (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences)

    Administered by: Graduate Studies

    Overview

    Epidemiology & Biostatistics : Study, through lectures, guided reading, practicals, assignments etc., of an elected and approved topic of epidemiologic importance.

    Terms: Winter 2025

    Instructors: Grant, Audrey (Winter)

  • EXMD 609 Cellular Methods in Medical Research (3 credits)

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

    Administered by: Graduate Studies

    Overview

    Experimental Medicine : Different cellular methods used in biomedical research, including spectroscopic, microscopic and immunological techniques as well as statistics. Lectures, some demonstrations by faculty as well as short seminars given by the students.

    Terms: Fall 2024

    Instructors: Rousseau, Simon; McCusker, Christine T; Smith, Benjamin; Bateman, Andrew; Laporte, Stephane; Baglole, Carolyn; Fonseca, Gregory; Ding, Jun (Fall)

  • EXMD 610 Molecular Methods in Medical Research (3 credits)

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

    Administered by: Graduate Studies

    Overview

    Experimental Medicine : Different molecular methods used in biomedical research, including chromatography, purification and analysis of proteins and nucleic acids, various techniques in molecular biology, transgenic technology, and stem cells. Lectures, some demonstrations, and short seminars given by the students.

    Terms: Winter 2025

    Instructors: Rousseau, Simon; Fonseca, Gregory (Winter)

  • PHGY 518 Artificial Cells (3 credits)

    Offered by: Physiology (Faculty of Science)

    Overview

    Physiology : Physiology, biotechnology, chemistry and biomedical application of artificial cells, blood substitutes, immobilized enzymes, microorganisms and cells, hemoperfusion, artificial kidneys, and drug delivery systems. PHGY 517 and PHGY 518 when taken together, will give a complete picture of this field. However, the student can select one of these.

    Terms: Fall 2024

    Instructors: Chang, Thomas Ming Swi; Shum-Tim, Dominique; Prakash, Satya; Hoesli, Corinne; Chen, Guojun (Fall)

    • Fall

    • Prerequisite (Undergraduate): permission of instructors.

  • PHGY 550 Molecular Physiology of Bone (3 credits)

    Offered by: Physiology (Faculty of Science)

    Overview

    Physiology : Students will develop a working knowledge of cartilage and bone. Discussion topics will include: molecular and cellular environment of bone; heritable and acquired skeletal defects; research models used to study metabolic bone disease.

    Terms: Fall 2024

    Instructors: Murshed, Monzur; Rauch, Frank; St-Arnaud, Rene; Siegel, Peter; Tiedemann, Kerstin; Moffatt, Pierre; Stone, Laura; Willie, Bettina; Marulanda Montoya, Juliana (Fall)

    • Fall

    • 1 hour of lecture, 2 hours of seminar per week

    • Prerequisites: PHGY 311, and BIOL 202 or equivalent

    • Restriction: U3 Physiology students, and graduate students in biomedical departments; others by permission of the instructor

Other complementary 500- or 600-level courses at the University may be taken with the approval of the director of the program and GPS.

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