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IE - Epidemiology - CMEDEP12
Title: IE - Epidemiologie
Guaranteed by: Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics 3FM CU (12-EPID)
Faculty: Third Faculty of Medicine
Actual: from 2015
Semester: winter
Points: 1
E-Credits: 1
Examination process: winter s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:0/15, other [HS]
Extent per academic year: 15 [hours]
Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
Key competences:  
State of the course: not taught
Language: Czech
Teaching methods: full-time
Teaching methods: full-time
Level:  
Additional information: http://www.lf3.cuni.cz/cs/pracoviste/epidemiologie
Guarantor: doc. MUDr. Alexander Čelko, CSc.
Classification: Medicine > Clinical Disciplines
Attributes: Modul IE
Examination dates   Schedule   
Annotation -
Last update: Bc. Kateřina Maternová (28.05.2008)
Particular course of Module IE. Introduction of epidemiology, terminology, epidemiological studies, their interpretation and evaluation of results, epidemiologic aspects of evaluation of health status, trends in epidemiology
Aim of the course -
Last update: Bc. Kateřina Maternová (28.05.2008)

Inform students about terminology used in epidemiology, epidemiologic aspects of evaluation of health status, basic characteristics of population studies, the ways of planning, organization, interpretation and evaluation of studies. All practical topics are illustrated by model situation solving.

Literature -
Last update: Bc. Kateřina Maternová (23.05.2008)

Control of Communicable Diseases Manual

David L. Heymann, MD, Editor, ISBN 0-87553-034-6 soft cover, ISBN 0-87553-035-4 hardcover

Teaching methods -
Last update: Bc. Kateřina Maternová (28.05.2008)

Seminars, practices

Requirements to the exam -
Last update: Bc. Kateřina Maternová (15.08.2008)

Credits shall be awarded upon completion of following requirements:

80% attendance at the practicals + succesfully passing the credit test (25 questions of multiple choice test, 18 and more answers are necessary to be correct). After spending all regular examination dates, every other date of the test can be determined by head teacher of the subject after at least 14days period. Results of the test are sent to head teacher of the modul, who will award the credit and final mark.

How to substitute missing practicals:

  • substitution with other study group after previous consent of the teacher
  • after termination of the practicals by elaborating short seminar work from missing topic

Syllabus -
Last update: Bc. Kateřina Maternová (12.05.2008)

METODOLOGY

Epidemiology methods

English curriculum

Seminars

Development and use of epidemiological methods - 2 hod.

Terminology used in epidemiology,basic characteristics of epidemiological studies, examples of different types of studies, their planning, design, and conducting, evaluation of results

Epidemiologic aspects of evaluation of health status - 2 hod.

Methods of evaluation of health status, explanation of terminology used, basic characteristics of population studies, measures of disease frequency and association

Practicals

Descriptive epidemiology - 3 hod.

Basic characteristics - person, place, time. Sources of data and its presentation.

Types of descriptive studies. Hypothesis formulation of causal association.

Analytical epidemiology - 3 hod.

Definition, clarification of causal association between exposure and effect, hypothesis testing. Selection of study groups, statistical assesment. Prospective and retrospective case-control and cohort study, their advantages and disadvantages

Experimental epidemiology - 2 hod.

Definition, effect and importace of experimental studies. Their types, selection of subjects under investigation, types of blinding, randomization, design, conducting and final testing and evaluation. Ethical issues of experimental clinical studies.

The ways of interpretation and evaluation of studies - 2 hod.

Issues in analysis and interpretation of studies, evaluation of the role of bias and counfounding, hypothesis testing, confidence intervals

Validity of the diagnostic tests - 2 hod.

Definition and importance of validity of diagnostic tests measurement, gold standard, sensitivity, specificity and predictive value calculation, design and strategy of population screening programme

All Practicals topics are illustrated by model situation solving

 
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