ISBN : 9780199685004
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 will help 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 specific methodologies, and disease specific issues, to provide expert assistance in the teaching of a wide range of epidemiology courses.
PART 1: CONTEXT
1. Introducing the history of epidemiology
2. Important concepts in epidemiology
3. Study Design
4. Statistics in epidemiology
5. Teaching a first course in epidemiologic principles and methods
PART 2: EXPOSURE-ORIENTED EPIDEMIOLOGY
6. Questionnaires in epidemiology
7. Environment
8. Occupational epidemiology
9. Life course epidemiology
10. Pharmacoepidemiology
11. Nutritional epidemiology
12. Genetic epidemiology
13. Teaching molecular epidemiology
14. Social inequalities in health
15. Climate change and human health: issues for teacher and classroom
PART 3: OUTCOME-ORIENTED EPIDEMIOLOGY
16. Infectious disease epidemiology
17. Cancer epidemiology
18. Teaching a course in psychiatric epidemiology
19. Neurologic diseases
20. Reproductive epidemiology
21. Teaching chronic respiratory disease epidemiology
22. Epidemiology of injuries
23. Dental epidemiology
24. Clinical epidemiology
25. Study of clustering and outbreaks
26. Registries and medical databases
27. Teaching epidemiology inside and outside the classroom
PART 4: PEDAGOGIES
28. Guide for teaching assistants in a methods course at a department of epidemiology