Basics of Epidemiology

There is a yearly extension course covering the basics of epidemiology. The aim is to teach the concepts, and basic techniques of epidemiology. The course is designed mainly for graduate professionals who are interested in taking a Master’s in Epidemiology at UFPel. The classes occur during a whole week, from Monday to Friday, from 8:30 am to 11:30 am and from 13:30 pm to 17:30 pm. The course’s total time of duration is 51 hours.

Course Approach

• History, basic focuses and uses of Epidemiology
• Validity and repeatability
• Association and causality
• Measures of diseases occurrences
• Case studies and controls
• Measures of effect and impact
• Cross-sectional studies
• Bias, confounding and effect modification
• Epidemiological analysis steps
• Cohort studies

Basics of Statistics

There is a yearly extension course in the basics of statistics. . The aim is to teach the concepts, and basic techniques of epidemiology. The course is designed mainly for graduate professionals who are interested in taking a Master’s in Epidemiology at UFPel. The course consists of nine 3-hour-and-a half- classes, and it is divided in 90 minutes to theoretical classes and 120 minutes to practical classes. The classes occur during a whole week, in the morning and in the afternoon, and they happen in the informatics lab of the Postgraduate Program in Epidemiology.

• To present the students the concepts and basic techniques of Statistics.
• To guide the student to the statistical thinking, in order that he/she realizes the variability’s importance and nature on epidemiological data and on the statistics derived from samples.
• To conceptualize frequency probabilities and distributions, probability in general, and binomial and normal in particular distributions.
• To enable the students to use techniques of data summarization, confidence intervals, and hypothesis testing.