340.620.20
Principles of Clinical Epidemiology
Location
East Baltimore
Term
3rd Term
Department
Epidemiology
Credit(s)
2
Academic Year
2018 - 2019
Instruction Method
TBD
Start Date
Tuesday, February 5, 2019
End Date
Wednesday, February 6, 2019
Tu, W, 8:30am - 4:50pm
Auditors Allowed
No
Available to Undergraduate
No
Grading Restriction
Letter Grade or Pass/Fail
Course Instructor(s)
Contact Name
Frequency Schedule
Every Year
Resources
Prerequisite
340.751 (Epidemiologic Methods 1)
Presents lectures and interactive sessions designed to expose students to basic principles of clinical epidemiology and introduce key methods utilized in clinical outcomes research. Focuses on principles and methods in clinical epidemiology which would be most utilized by clinicians/clinician researchers for screening and diagnosis of illness as well as for prognostication and decision-making.
Learning Objectives
Upon successfully completing this course, students will be able to:
- Describe how epidemiological methods are applied to medicine and how scientific evidence drive decision on clinical practice.
- Draw a ROC curve to understand and estimate the effect and implications of different cutoff points in diagnostic test
- Evaluate the performance of diagnostic tests taking into account characteristics of the test (sensitivity, specificity, etc.), potential outcomes and the features of the population (prevalence of disease and risk factors)
- Describe key factors for deciding optimal outcome measures for a clinical study
- Describe advantages and disadvantages of clinical trials and observational studies for evaluating treatment effects
- Build a decision analysis tree based on probabilities and see how different outcomes influence the decision making in clinical settings
Enrollment Restriction
Enrollment restricted to students in the Tsinghua DrPH cohort
This course will be offered over a 2-day period in Baltimore. Students are required to complete assignments prior to the first class session.