Syllabus
Epidemiology as a field
Basic epidemiological indicators
Association and causality
Hierarchy of evidence
Descriptive observational studies
Analytical observational studies (case-control, cohort study)
Intervention studies
Bias (confounding, selection bias, information bias)
Assessment of role of chance
Journal club
Spread of infections in the population
Control of infectious diseases
Vaccination
Epidemiological characteristics of COVID19
Emerging infections
Annotation
Epidemiology is the study of the distribution (who, when and where) and determinants of health and disease in populations. It is both a theoretical field of research to advance scientific understanding (basic science) as well as an applied field that aims to prevent and control diseases. Therefore, the course Epidemiology consist of two major parts. First, general epidemiology is taught, which includes topics, such as measures of frequency and association, design of studies, causality or bias. This is followed by teaching of infectious disease epidemiology, such as epidemiological features of COVID 19 or vaccinations.
Teaching takes place during 1 week. Methods of teaching include frontal teaching, which is followed by practicing of the acquired knowledge. Students solve the given examples and situations partly together with the lecturer, partly in the form of individual as well as group work.