MPH1040

Introductory epidemiology

(MED)

Associate Professor M Abramson

6 points + 2 contact hours per week + First semester + Alfred

Synopsis: This subject must be taken concurrently with MPH1041. Together they are prerequisites for clinical epidemiology, advanced biostatistics and some other elective units. Content includes rates, sources of data, descriptive and analytical epidemiology, epidemiological study designs, critical appraisal of literature, screening, prevention, exposure assessment, outbreak investigation, confounding and sources of bias.

Assessment: Assignment + End-of-semester examination