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. The new edition of Teaching Epidemiology helps you to do this and, by providing world-expert teachers advice on how best to structure teaching, providing a unique insight into what has worked in their hands. This book willhelp you to tailor your own epidemiology teaching programme.The fourth edition of this established text has been fully revised and updated, drawing on new research findings and recently developed methods including research technologies in genetic epidemiology and method development in relation to causal analysis. Analytical tools provide teachers in the field with the skills to guide students at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Each chapter in Teaching Epidemiology comprises key concepts in epidemiology, subject specificmethodologies, and disease specific issues, to provide expert assistance in the teaching of a wide range of epidemiology courses.
Part 1: Context; Introducing the history of epidemiology; Important concepts in epidemiology; Study Design; Statistics in epidemiology; Teaching a first course in epidemiologic principles and methods; Part 2: Exposure-oriented Epidemiology; Questionnaires in epidemiology; Environment; Occupational epidemiology; Life course epidemiology; Pharmacoepidemiology; Nutritional epidemiology; Genetic epidemiology; Teaching molecular epidemiology; Social inequalities in health; Climate change and human health: issues for teacher and classroom; Part 3: Outcome-oriented Epidemiology; Infectious disease epidemiology; Cancer epidemiology; Teaching a course in psychiatric epidemiology; Neurologic diseases; Reproductive epidemiology; Teaching chronic respiratory disease epidemiology; Epidemiology of injuries; Dental epidemiology; Clinical epidemiology; Study of clustering and outbreaks; Registries and medical databases; Teaching epidemiology inside and outside the classroom; Part 4: Pedagogies; Guide for teaching assistants in a methods course at a department of epidemiology;
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