MI5000 - Epidemiology

Credit points:	03
Year:	2007
Student Contribution Band:	Band 3
Administered by:	Discipline of Microbiology & Immunology

The subject includes a consideration of terms and methods used to describe the occurrence of disease; the concept and measurement of cause and effect; factors affecting validity and types of choice of diagnostic tests; the design and interpretation of clinical trials and economics of disease. Practical classes will be conducted on the application of biostatistical software which supports these topics.

Learning Outcomes

• be able to apply basic exploratory and inferential statistical methods to biomedical data using statistical software;
• be able to design and analyse the results of sampling for disease, surveys, case control studies and cohort studies and clinical trials using within and between subject, factorial and repeated measure designs;
• be aware of sources of bias in designing biomedical experiments and interpreting data;
• know sources of epidemiological data and how to describe and prepare such data for analysis and presentation;
• know the economic measures applied to assessing costs and benefits of disease control;
• understand the often complex patterns of cause and effects of disease.

Inadmissible Subject Combinations:

TV5040 and HS1000

Availabilities
Townsville, Internal, Study Period 1
Census Date 30-Mar-2007
Coord/Lect:	Dr Lee Skerratt.
Contact hours:	36 hours lectures 6 hours tutorials 48 hours practicals
Assessment:	end of semester exam (50%); assignments (50%).

Note: Minor variations might occur due to the continuous Subject quality improvement process, and in case of minor variation(s) in assessment details, the Subject Outline represents the latest official information.