Syllabus
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
Annotation
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