Graduate students are also encouraged to apply.
Candidates develop research skills, and learn basic epidemiological methods.
They study the history and development of the major national and international psychiatric epidemiology studies, and they become familiar with commonly used diagnostic instruments. They learn how to organize and manage population surveys, including design, data collection and data analysis. Students can select one or more of the projects now active in the Department. Another option is that they design their own research project within the research area of one or more faculty members and relevant to psychiatric epidemiology. Students are steered toward participation in all stages of study design, instrument development, sample selection, interviewer training, data collection and management, and data analysis.