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Registered
Charity No. 1060134 |
| CME Course |
Introductory course on Epidemiology
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| Alcázar |
March 13-15, 2005
Hotel
Beatriz,
Toledo, Spain
ERA-EDTA
European Council for Accreditation in CME in Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation (ECANDT of the ERA-EDTA accredited by the European Accreditation Council
for CME - EACCME).
| Chair-person: R. Coppo (Italy) |
| Secretary: A.L.M. De Francisco (Spain) |
| Members: J. Floege (Germany) |
| R. Vanholder (Belgium) |
| A. Wiecek (Poland) |
| C. Zoccali (Italy) |
| F. Locatelli, ERA-EDTA President (Italy) |
| CME Courses Coordinators: |
| Basic Science and Clinical Nephrology: R. Coppo (Italy) and J. Floege (Germany). |
| Chronic Renal Failure, Hypertension and Clinical Epidemiology: C. Zoccali (Italy) and G. London (France). |
| Dialysis: R. Vanholder (Belgium) and S. Davies (UK). |
| Transplantation: C. Ponticelli (Italy), A. Torres (Spain) and K. Olgaard (Denmark). |
Local Coordinator: F. García López
ERA-EDTA Coordinators: C. Zoccali, K. Jager
In this second two-day introductory course on epidemiology the lectures and hands-on sessions will provide an orientation to epidemiology. Members of the ERA-EDTA Registry committee, including nephrologists who are experienced in epidemiological research, together with epidemiologists and medical information scientists from the ERA-EDTA Registry office, will relate theory to examples from nephrology.
Hands-on sessions will offer the opportunity to practise epidemiological concepts, such as the different measures of disease frequency, others will discuss the advantages and disadvantages of different study designs when trying to answer a specific research question. In addition, there will be a number of hands-on sessions focusing on data analysis using the SPSS statistical package in practice.
Participants should have an interest in clinical epidemiological research or research with registry data as well as a basic knowledge of biostatistitics.
The following books are the basis for the course and can be used for further reading:
- Kenneth J. Rothman. Epidemiology: an Introduction; Oxford University Press, 2002; ISBN 0-19-513554-7
- TDV Swinscow and MJ Campbell. Statistics at square one; BMJ Books, 2004; ISBN 0-7279-1552-5