About this course

This is a very short introduction course on Epidemiology

The course covers essential measurements and their interpretations used in epidemiological studies to help students find and interpret evidence relating to clinical questions, appraise recent research and understand basic statistical concepts.

Course outline

Module 1: Measurements of disease frequency

Part 1 (Prevalence and Incidence)

Part 2 (Examples)

Module 2: Study designs and measurements of association

Part 1 (Overview)

Part 2 (Measurements of association in cohort studies)

Part 3 (Measurements of association in case control studies)

Part 4 (Pros and cons in cohort and case control studies)

Part 5 (Measurements of association in randomized controlled trial)

Module 3: Screening

Part 1 (Overview)

Part 2 (Measurements used to evaluate screening tests)

Part 3 (Examples)

Module 4:Statistics Snapshot

Part 1 (Measurements of central tendency)

Part 2 (Measurements of dispersion)

Part 3 (P Value)

Part 4 (Confidence Interval)