Short Courses

The SingHealth Duke-NUS Health Services Research Institute (HSRI) collaborates with SingHealth Health Services Research Centre (HSRC) and Duke-NUS Programme in Health Services and System Research (HSSR) to deliver a programme of short courses relevant to the needs of our community.

These short courses will be offered at intervals throughout the year. Emails will be sent out advertising the courses and inviting registration:

Introduction to R
R is a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics. It compiles and runs on a wide variety of UNIX platforms, Windows and Mac OS.

Python programming
Python is a programming language that lets you work more quickly and integrate your systems more effectively. It is an interpreted, high-level, general-purpose programming language for small and large-scale projects.

REDcap
Participants will learn about the application process for SingHealth REDCap projects, the design of data collection forms, longitudinal data collection techniques and methods for import and export of data.

Introduction to Health Services Research
Health Services Research (HSR) is the study of how social factors, financing systems, medical technologies and personal behaviors affect access, cost and quality of healthcare. The goal of HSR is to improve the performance of health services and it emphasis populations rather than individuals. To increase awareness of and inspire more HSR in SingHealth we conduct introductory seminars with case studies from SingHealth.

Citizen Data Science
Students will be exposed to the foundation concepts, case studies and applications, some mathematics behind data science models and algorithms. There will also be practical sessions for model development, training, validation and tests. Students will acquire new knowledge of data science techniques. The new knowledge from this course will enable predictions to be made about likely diagnoses, prognoses of health conditions and risks of adverse events.

Implementation Science
This course will provide an understanding of the processes and factors that lead to successful integration of evidence-based interventions into a healthcare setting. Effective training for implementation science will allow health care professionals to rapidly innovate with poorly performing services and apply the latest evidence to existing services.

The Data Science and Implementation Science courses are jointly organised by Duke-NUS and SingHealth in collaboration with Duke University.

For further info:
Email: hsr@singhealth.com.sg

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