Presented at the Epidemiology Unit University of Malaya on 9th March 2007 by Professor Omar Hasan Kasule
Module 1: Epistemological Introduction
1.1 Nature of Knowledge
1.2 Crisis of Knowledge
1.3 Methodology of knowledge
1.4 Building a scientific culture
1.5 Problems of bias and objectivity
Module 2: Discipline Introduction
2.1 General Epidemiology
2.2 Clinical Epidemiology
2.3 Public and Community Health
2.4 Biostatistics
2.5 Computing
Module 3: Mathematical Foundations
3.1 Probability
3.2 Variables
3.3 The Normal Curve and Estimation
3.4 Hypotheses
3.5 Samples
Module 4: Descriptive Statistics
4.1 Data Storage, Retrieval, and Management
4.2 Data Summary & Presentation as Diagrams: Tables and Graphics
4.3 Discrete Data Summary: Rates, Hazards, Ratios, and Proportions
4.4 Continuous Data Summary 1: Measures Of Central Tendency
4.5 Continuous Data Summary 2: Measures Of Variation/Dispersion
Module 5: Inferential Statistics
5.1 Discrete Data Analysis
5.2 Continuous Data Analysis
5.3 Correlation Analysis
5.4 Regression Analysis
5.5 Time Series and Survival Analysis
Module 6: Study Design and Analysis
6.1 Field Epidemiology
6.2 Cross-Sectional Design
6.3 Case-Control Design
6.4 Follow-Up Design
6.5 Randomized Design
Module 7: Interpretation
7.1 Measures of Association and Effect
7.2 Sources and Treatment of Bias
7.3 Health Status Information
7.4 Health Services Information
7.5 Reading and Writing Scientific Literature
Module 8: Meta analysis and systematic review
8.1 Introduction to systematic review
8.2 Selection and appraisal of articles
8.3 Meta analytic methods for discrete data
8.4 Meta analytic methods for continuous data
8.5 Critical appraisal of meta analysis: strengths and weaknesses
Module 9: Exposure Epidemiology
9.1 Environment Exposures
9.2 Occupation Exposures
9.3 Nutritional Exposures
9.4 Radiational Exposures
9.5 Other Exposures: Genetics, Molecular, and Drug Exposures
Module 10: Disease Epidemiology
10.1 Disease: Description, diagnosis, and prognosis
10.2 Disease: Determinants
10.3 Disease: Control and Prevention
10.4 Disease Surveillance
10.5 Disease Screening
Module 11: Communicable Diseases
11.1 Concepts
11.2 Communicable Diseases by Viruses
11.3 Communicable Diseases by Prokaryotes
11.4 Communicable Diseases by Eukaryotes
11.5 Emerging Communicable Diseases
Module 12: Non-Communicable Diseases
12.1 Epidemiological Characterization
12.2 Risk Factors
12.3 Cancer
12.4 Diseases by Organ System
12.5 Diseases by Age Group
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© Professor Omar Hasan Kasule March 2007
© Professor Omar Hasan Kasule March 2007
