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Course
This three-week course takes place every September/October in
one of the host countries. It gathers the new cohort of EPIET fellows,
colleagues from participating institutes as well as from countries of the
European Union and neighbouring nations.
The course objectives are to acquire skills in:
- Outbreak investigation methods
- Epidemiological surveillance planning, establishment and evaluation of
surveillance systems
- Descriptive and analytical epidemiology
The training methods include systematic presentations
in applied epidemiology, interactive case studies and practical exercises in
small groups. Topics include:
- Development and presentation of study protocols based on public health
problems in EU countries
- The basis for developing and evaluating surveillance systems
- Information on methods of outbreak investigation, supported by exercises
and case studies based on real investigations
- Instruction in analytical epidemiological skills for data analysis: risk,
association, impact, stratification, bias, confounding, effect modification,
matching and multi-variable analysis
- Attendance at the EPIET Scientific Seminar which is held at the end of the three week course.
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