PU5026: EPIDEMIOLOGY (2014-2015)

Introduction including a brief history and definition of epidemiology. The use of routine data to monitor patterns of morality and morbidity in populations. Measure disease occurrence including prevalence, incidence, crude and standardised rates/ratios. A brief overview of study design. The concept of risk and relative/absolute measures of effect. A brief overview of the role of chance including precision and hypothesis testing. The concepts of bias, confounding, reliability, internal/external validity and causality relating to epidemiological research. The common epidemiological study designs: case series; correlational and cross-sectional studies; cohort studies; case control studies. The critical appraisal of epidemiological studies, Screening criteria and related concepts.

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Summative assessment on the epidemiology course will involve individual students completing 5 marked elements:
1) MCQ examination (1 hour) at the end of 'week 3' (15% of the final mark).
2) Epidemiological numerical calculations (2 hours) at the end of 'week 5' (20% of the final mark)
3) Production of an epidemiological conference abstract during 'week 8' (20% tutor and 5% peer marks allocated to final mark).
4) MCQ examination (time-limited to 1 hour) at the end of 'week 10' (15% of the final mark)
5) Critical appraisal (time-limited to 2 hours, structured assignment of 500 words) of a published epidemiological (25% of the final mark)

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