EPIDEMIOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS IN PRIMARY HEALTHCARE RESEARCH

Graduate

This course introduces essential principles of epidemiological applications that are relevant to primary healthcare research. Students will be introduced to the principles of patient oriented research, primary healthcare, and the background of epidemiological applications, as well as the specific applications and computations of sensitivity and specificity, risk estimation, rates and proportions, hypothesis generating and hypothesis evaluation, as well as arithmetic and mathematical modeling. A combination of formal lectures, directed readings, group discussions and interpretation of outcomes from specific analyses using customized “webulators” will be used. Students are expected to prepare written reports and/or present seminars. PREREQUISITE: Admission to a graduate program in Science and permission of the instructor HOURS OF CREDIT: 3