Clinical Epidemiology

Catalog description

This course will help students learn or refine the skills of clinical epidemiology, defined as the study and management of illness in individuals using population methods. Individual and group sessions will develop techniques of constructive critical appraisal of the medical literature, illustrated by examples from general health, cardiovascular disease and reproductive health. Students will learn how to assess studies of prognosis or outcomes of illness, treatments, diagnostic tests, and screening program as well as the basic requirements for randomized clinical trials.