Lecture, four hours; laboratory, two hours. Limited to departmental MS and PhD students. Introduction to scope of health services research, conceptualization and design of health services research, choice and assessment of measures for such research, and methods for studies involving direct data collection. Broad overview to conducting health services research, alternative research paradigms, building conceptual models of what students are trying to study, designing and testing measures, and direct data collection issues of survey and questionnaire design, sampling, community engagement, and research ethics. Letter grading.