Course Description: The first few sessions of the course are devoted to fundamentals: incidence and prevalence; random error (p values and confidence intervals), risks, and bias. Student will then learn how to investigate an outbreak.  The last sessions focus on study designs, from cohort studies to randomized trials.  Students will be asked to read research articles designed to answer a clinical question and then evaluate its validity and generalizability. Course learning objectives The main objective of the course is to teach students to be critical users of research articles, not to be researchers. At the end of the course, the student should be able to: 1.Find evidence from the research literature to answer a specific clinical question 2.Evaluate the validity, and applicability of research articles to answer specific clinical questions 3.Identify and interpret some of the risk factors affecting patients and the community 4.Identify issues with regards to medical research ethics 5.Know the basics of investigating an outbreak

Semester: Spring

Offered: Tue, 01/06/2015 - 02:12

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