1.2  Crisis of Knowledge

1.3  Methodology of knowledge

1.4  Building a scientific culture

1.5  Problems of bias and objectivity

Module 2: Discipline Introduction

2.1 General Epidemiology

2.2 Clinical Epidemiology

2.3 Public and Community Health

2.4 Biostatistics

2.5 Computing

Module 3: Mathematical Foundations

3.1 Probability

3.2 Variables

3.3 The Normal Curve and Estimation

3.4 Hypotheses

3.5 Samples

Module 4: Descriptive Statistics

4.1 Data Storage, Retrieval, and Management

4.2 Data Summary & Presentation as Diagrams: Tables and Graphics

4.3 Discrete Data Summary: Rates, Hazards, Ratios, and Proportions

4.4 Continuous Data Summary 1: Measures Of Central Tendency

4.5 Continuous Data Summary 2: Measures Of Variation/Dispersion

Module 5: Inferential Statistics

5.1 Discrete Data Analysis

5.2 Continuous Data Analysis

5.3 Correlation Analysis

5.4 Regression Analysis

5.5 Time Series and Survival Analysis

Module 6: Study Design and Analysis

6.1 Field Epidemiology

6.2 Cross-Sectional Design

6.3 Case-Control Design

6.4 Follow-Up Design

6.5 Randomized Design

Module 7: Interpretation

7.1 Measures of Association and Effect

7.2 Sources and Treatment of Bias

7.3 Health Status Information

7.4 Health Services Information

7.5 Reading and Writing Scientific Literature

Module 8: Meta analysis and systematic review

8.1 Introduction to systematic review

8.2 Selection and appraisal of articles

8.3 Meta analytic methods for Discrete data

8.4 Meta analytic methods for continuous data

8.5 Critical appraisal of meta analysis: strengths and weaknesses

Module 9: Exposure Epidemiology

9.1 Environment Exposures

9.2 Occupation Exposures

9.3 Nutritional Exposures

9.4 Radiational Exposures

9.5 Other Exposures: Genetics, Molecular, and Drug Exposures

Module 10: Disease Epidemiology

10.1 Disease: Description, diagnosis, and prognosis

10.2 Disease: Determinants

10.3 Disease: Control and Prevention

10.4 Disease Surveillance

10.5 Disease Screening

Module 11: Communicable Diseases

11.1 Concepts

11.2 Communicable Diseases by Viruses

11.3 Communicable Diseases by Prokaryotes

11.4 Communicable Diseases by Eukaryotes

11.5 Emerging Communicable Diseases

Module 12: Non-Communicable Diseases

12.1 Epidemiological Characterization

12.2 Risk Factors

12.3 Cancer

12.4 Diseases by Organ System