
Virtual Course on Epidemiological Methods (Open Educational Resource)
IMPORTANT NOTE:
This course has ended.
Purpose
The purpose of this module is to enable learners to synthesize and apply the information learned in the previous two
modules, EPIDEM-1 and EPIDEM-2.
Objectives and Competencies
The objectives of the Epidemiological Methods module are to enable the learner to:
- Describe the primary objectives of epidemiologic studies.
- Identify a variety of designs in epidemiological studies.
- Identify and describe sources of error in study designs.
- Describe the role and dimensions of the three primary variables of person, place and time in descriptive epidemiology.
- Outline the steps in an outbreak investigation.
- Provide examples of important epidemiological concepts in your own work, and interpret them in hypothetical contexts.