The student gains hands-on experience in weekly workshops by conducting analyses of existing data designed to answer a research question. The student may earn a third credit through a term project. Covers the role of the physician and other health professionals in the primary and secondary prevention of disease. Topics include relationships among physicians, hospitals, nursing homes, regulatory agencies, third-party payers, and the law. Required for residents only.
Emphasis is on possible biases that can occur in epidemiologic research.
Special topics include screening, misclassification, and questionnaire construction. Topics include occupational exposures, toxicology of environmental pollutants, occupational epidemiology, industrial hygiene, legal and regulatory aspects, role of the physician and nurse in the workplace, control of exposures, and health education relating to the worker. Instruction by lectures, seminars, and field trips to sites of interest. Topics include treatment of stratified and matched data, detection of interaction, conditional and unconditional logistic regression, survival analysis, and proportional hazards model. Students complete a data-based project that includes analysis of data and preparation of manuscript to report findings.