The three-credit hour course is offered each Winter semester. The course is a basic introduction to epidemiology, with review of fundamental principles and concepts, and application to selected examples of chronic, non-infectious diseases and infectious diseases. Epidemiology 601 is a four-credit hour course in Fall Term designed for epidemiology majors. It assumes concurrent enrollment in pathology and biostatistics or prior preparation. The course is targeted to an audience with prerequisites consistent with acceptance into the epidemiology masters' program, which assumes appropriate preparation in mathematics and biology.
Specific information regarding each of the exams is below.
The biostatistics exemption exam is open book and a calculator is required. Students who pass the entire exam will be exempt from the biostatistics requirement. The epidemiology exemption exam is closed book and a calculator is required. The epidemiology exemption examination is based on the Epidemiology 503 course material. If you plan to take both exemption exams, plan accordingly.