Teaching Epidemiology A guide for teachers in epidemiology, public health and clinical medicine

by Olsen, Jorn

• ISBN13: 9780199239481
• ISBN10: 0199239487
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-06-11
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Teaching Epidemiology requires skill and knowledge, combined with a clear teaching strategy and good pedagogic skills. The general advice is simple: if you are not an expert on a topic, try to enrich your background knowledge before you start teaching. Teaching Epidemiology third edition helps you to do this, and by providing the world-expert teacher's advice on how best to structure teaching gives a unique insight in to what has worked in their hands. The book will help you plan your own tailored teaching programme. The book is a guide to new teachers in the field at two levels; those teaching basic courses for undergraduates, and those teaching more advanced courses for students at postgraduate level. Each chapter provides key concepts and a list of key references. Subject specific methodology and disease specific issues (from cancer to genetic epidemiology) are dealt with in details. There is also a focused chapter on the principles and practice of computer-assisted learning.

Author Biography

Jorn Olsen is Professor and Chair in the Department of Public Health at UCLA, Los Angeles,California, and Professor of Epidemiology and Social Medicine at the University of Aarhus, Denmark where he was awarded his MD in Medicine and his PhD in Epidemiology. He has published extensively in the field of Epidemiology and has served as a member of the Governing Board of the International Association for Research on Cancer and as President elect of the International Epidemiological Association. Dimitrios Trichopoulos, MD, PhD has served as Professor and Chairman of the Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, University of Athens Medical School, Chairman of the Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, and Director of the Harvard Center for Cancer Prevention. He is the Vincent L. Gregory Professor of Cancer Prevention and Professor of Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health, Adjunct Professor of Medical Epidemiology at Karolinska Institutet, Sweden, and a Regular Member of the Athens Academy.
He has received various distinctions, including the Distinguished Physician, Hellenic Medical Society of New York (1999), Hygeia Award, New England Hellenic Medical and Dental Society (2001), Julius Richmond Award for demonstrating the association of passive smoking with lung cancer (2004), Medal of Honour, International Agency for Research on Cancer - WHO (2007), Honorary Fellow, Royal College of Physicians, London, UK (2008). Rodolfo Saracci worked for thirty years (1976-2006) as Chief of Analytical Epidemiology and later as consultant at the WHO International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon. He is currently Adjunct Professor, University of Aarhus (Denmark), and has been director since 1988 of the summer didactic programme "European Educational Programme in Epidemiology" (Florence,Italy). He has authored some two hundred publications in Medline, most on cancer as related to environment and nutrition, and on empirical research on ethical issues in medicine & epidemiology. His qualifications/awards include Former President (1996-99) International Epidemiological Association; Founder and Emeritus Member, Italian Association of Epidemiology (AIE, Associazione Italiana Epidemiologia); currently Associate Editor, International Epidemiological Association; and Former Member of editorial boards 'American Journal of Epidemiology' and 'Epidemiology'.

Table of Contents

Part 1: Context
1. Introducing the history of epidemiology, Rodolfo Saracci
2. Important concepts in epidemiology, Olli S. Miettinen
3. Study Design, Jorn Olsen and Olga Basso
4. Statistics in epidemiology, Per Kragh Andersen
5. Teaching a first course in epidemiologic principles and methods, Kenneth J. Rothman
Part 2: Exposure Oriented Epidemiology
6. Questionnaires in epidemiology, Jakob Bue Bjorner and Jorn Olsen
7. Environment, Anders Ahlbom
8. Occupational epidemiology, Neil Pearce
9. Life course epidemiology, Yoav Ben-Shlomo and Diana Kuh
10. Pharmacoepidemiology, Susan Jick
11. Nutritional epidemiology, Walter C. Willett
12. Genetic epidemiology, Harry Campbell and Susan Service
13. Teaching molecular epidemiology, Betsy Foxman
14. Social inequalities in health, Nancy Krieger
15. Climate change and human health: issues for teacher and classroom, Anthony J. McMichael And Ulisses Confalonieri
Part 3: Outcome Oriented Epidemiology
16. Infectious disease epidemiology, Marc Lipsitch
17. Cancer epidemiology, Pagona Lagiou and Dimitrios Trichopoulos
18. Teaching a course in psychiatric epidemiology, Rebecca Fuhrer and Ezra Susser
19. Neurologic diseases, C. A. Molgaard, A. L. Golbeck, and J. F. Rothrock
20. Reproductive epidemiology, Jorn Olsen and Ellen Aagaard Nohr
21. Teaching chronic respiratory disease epidemiology, Josep M. Anto
22. Epidemiology of injuries, Eleni Petridou, Evi Germeni and Mark Stevenson
23. Dental epidemiology, Flemming Scheutz and Georgios Tsakos
24. Clinical epidemiology, John A. Baron and Henrik Toft Sorensen
25. Study of clustering and outbreaks, Paul Elliott
26. Field studies in developing countries, Japhet Killewo and Anita Sandstrom
27. Registries and medical databases, Henrik Toft Sorensen And John A. Baron
28. Teaching epidemiology inside and outside the classroom, J.H. Abramson
Part 4: Pedagogies
29. Computer-assisted learning - principles and practice, Charles Du V. Florey and Ralph R. Frerichs
30. Competency based curriculum in epidemiology, Haroutune Armenian, Michael E. Thompson, And Jonathan Samet
31. Guide for teaching assistants in a methods course in a department of epidemiology, Naomi Greene And Tarun Bhatnagar