Epidemiological Methods (Open Educational Resource)

Virtual Course on Epidemiological Methods (Open Educational Resource)
IMPORTANT NOTE:

This course has ended. It was offered from september 2019 to October 2019. Here you can access the different knowledge resources (bibliography, readings, videos, guides, etc.), used during the course.
The communication spaces, exchange forums, and some activities/materials have been hidden because they were for exclusive use of the course participants.
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These are materials developed for teaching purposes in the context of the VCPH.
Please note that some materials may not be updated or there might be more recent versions, and the ones that are included here are only an archive of Campus resources.

 

Purpose
The purpose of this module is to enable learners to synthesize and apply the information learned in the previous two
modules, EPIDEM-1 and EPIDEM-2.

Objectives and Competencies
The objectives of the Epidemiological Methods module are to enable the learner to:

  • Describe the primary objectives of epidemiologic studies.
  • Identify a variety of designs in epidemiological studies.
  • Identify and describe sources of error in study designs.
  • Describe the role and dimensions of the three primary variables of person, place and time in descriptive epidemiology.
  • Outline the steps in an outbreak investigation.
  • Provide examples of important epidemiological concepts in your own work, and interpret them in hypothetical contexts.
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Last update: 17/Jan/2024