Epidemiology, Statistics and Prevention

ECM 6002

Course Overview

This course combines the first year Environmental and Community Medicine (ECM1) and the Epidemiology and Biostatistics courses taught by the Department of Environmental and Occupational Medicine.

The health care system and medical education are increasingly relying on "evidence-based medicine". This course will acquaint students with basic statistical and epidemiological skills, and will teach students to apply these skills to the biomedical literature in order to incorporate "evidence-based medicine"
into their lives and practice.

This course will identify the behavioral, environmental and health system factors responsible for adverse health consequences and the basic mechanisms by which they cause and exacerbate disease.

You will be introduced to the notion of causation, a central facet of medicine and public health at the beginning of the new millennium. The focus will be on you as a physician and on your patients and the environments they experience at home, at work, and in their communities. We hope to prepare you to anticipate how current trends in behavioral health, environmental health, health care delivery as well as biomedical science will affect how you practice and how you assess new health threats and therapies. Epidemiological skills will cover study designs and hypothesis testing. The course is organized as a series of integrated lectures and has also been designed to develop self-directed learning skills. There will be presentations and discussions led by faculty lecturers and individual assignments supervised by faculty preceptors.

Course Directors

		Michael Gochfeld, MD, PhD Professor Department of Environmental and Occupational Medicine 732-445-0123 x630 gochfeld@eohsi.rutgers.edu
		Howard M. Kipen, MD, MPH Professor Department of Environmental and Occupational Medicine 732-445-0123 x629 kipen@eohsi.rutgers.edu
		Daniel E. Wartenberg, PhD Professor Department of Environmental and Occupational Medicine 732-445-0197 dew@eohsi.rutgers.edu
Course Administrator		Betty J. Coram 732-445-0200 corambj@umdnj.edu