MPH1039

Critical appraisal of OH information

(MED)

Associate Professor M Sim

6 points + OCDL (with 15 contact hours over 2 days) + First semester + Caulfield General Medical Centre

Synopsis: Topics include descriptive epidemiology & rates, analytical epidemiology, confounding & bias, descriptive statistics, probability distributions, cross-sectional & cohort studies, case-control studies, t-tests, proportions & chi-square, diagnostic tests, screening, odds ratios & relative risk, p-values & confidence intervals, measures of exposure, outcome measures, critical appraisal, causation, survey design.

Assessment: Assignments + Multiple-choice examination