Authorised by Academic Registrar, April 1996
Synopsis The aim is to demonstrate epidemiological principles and basic statistics with the purpose of developing competence in the critical appraisal of diagnostic and screening tests and studies of populations that refer to causation and risk of injury and disease, particularly occupational. At the end of this subject students will be more competent and confident in epidemiological principles and basic statistics. This competence will enable participants to critically appraise epidemiological papers in scientific literature. Topics covered include descriptive epidemiology and rates, analytical epidemiology, confounding and bias, descriptive statistics, probability distributions, cross-sectional and cohort studies, case-control studies, t-tests, proportions and chi-square, diagnostic tests, screening, odds ratios and relative risk, p-values and confidence intervals, measures of exposure, outcome measures, critical appraisal, causation, survey design.
Assessment Assignment (2000 words): 50% + Multiple-choice examination: 50%