UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB SCHOOL OF MEDICINE. Plan of the course. Epidemiology. Academic year 2017/2018. izv. prof. dr. sc.

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1 UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB SCHOOL OF MEDICINE Plan of the course Epidemiology Academic year 2017/2018

2 I. COURSE AIMS I COURSE AIMS: Medical students have to acquire knowledge of: 1. understanding prevalence of medical problems (illness, injury, disability and death) in population, gathering data for morbidity and mortality; setting health priorities; 2. understanding the dynamics of infectious diseases transmission, discovering carriers, knowing about vaccination and other methods of primary and secondary prevention of communicable diseases (e.g. seroprophylaxis and chemoprophylaxis); 3. analytical approach in risk assessment study design and quantitative presentation of risk; 4. planning, organization and implementation of primary and secondary prevention measures of non-infectious mass diseases and evaluation of these programs II. COURSE STRUCTURE Course hours: : 20 : 12 : 28 Total hours: 60 (L): 20 hours s (S): 12 hours Practicals (P): 28 hours Total: 60 hours III. PLAN OF THE COURSE AND COURSE SCHEDULE BLOCKS OF THE COURSE Number of blocks: 1 Block number Start End BLOCKS OF THE COURSE Number of blocks: 1 Block number Start End

3 BLOCKS OF THE COURSE SHEME Block 1 Date Time Group Course hours type Theme Information about course-instructions for seminar work Definition and history of epidemiology C lassification of epidemiology, types of studies Frequency measures in epidemiology Frequency measures in epidemiology Tuesday Data sources Data sources C ase-control study C ase-control study C ohort study C ohort study Wednesday Sampling Questionaire C ausal inference Bias and confounding issues in epidemiological investigations Bias and confounding issues in epidemiological investigations Thursday Screening and diagnostic tests Epidemiologic approach to screening Experimental studies-randomized clinical trial, controlled field and natural trial Randomized clinical trial, controlled field trial, natural trial C ross-sectional study C ritical analyse of studies-directions Friday Molecular and genetic epidemiology Descriptive epidemiology Systematic review and meta-analysis Vogralic chain of spreading the disease Prevention of communicable diseaseas and organisation of health care service Teaching staff

4 Date Time Group Course hours type Theme Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday :00-08:45; ŠNZ A prizemlje Vaccination Administration of vaccines Epidemiology of air-borne infections Rabies and anti-rabic prevention Alimentary toxic-infections and diseases transmitted by feco-oral route Alimentary toxic-infections and diseases transmitted by feco-oral route Zoonoses and transmissive communicable diseases Epidemiology of tuberculosis and influenza Food poisoning Food poisoning Epidemiology of cardiovascular diseases Epidemiologic approach to chronic diseases Prevention measures for chronic diseases Age standardization Age standardization Global obesity epidemic C oronary disease surveillance Goran Krstačić, dr. med. C ancer epidemiology C ancer surveillance Epidemiology of road traffic accidents C ritical analyse of studies C ritical analyse of studies Epidemiology of HIV/AIDS and other STDs Global burden of disease Ethical and professional issues in epidemiological work Epidemiology of diabetes mellitus dr. sc. Tamara Poljičanin Epidemiology of injuries SVI Exam EXAM Teaching staff IV. EXAMINATIONS

5 Final exam includes test and oral exam. Test type is multiple-choice questions (50 questions) with one correct answer. Oral exam consists of three questions from each main field-methodology, communicable and noncommunicable epidemiology. Regular terms Date Summer Autumn V./I. LIST OF LECTURERS AND TEACHING STAFF doc. dr. sc. Zrinka Biloglav V./II EXTERNAL ASSOCIATES: 1. Goran Krstačić, dr. med. 2. dr. sc. Tamara Poljičanin V./III UNTENURED LECTURERS: dr. sc. Bernard Kaić VI. LITERATURE A. Obligatory Merrill RM Introduction to epidemiology, 6th ed., Jones Bartlet or Gordis L. Epidemiology. 3rd ed. WB Sanders Company. Philadelphia, 2004 Handouts for seminars and practicals B. Additional Olsen J., Saracci R., Trichopoulus D. Teaching epidemiology. 2nd ed. Oxford university Press, Oxford, New York, 2001.