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CME Course

 

Epidemiology short course

 

The Residenz - Wurzburg

 

October 9-11, 2005

Würzburg, Germany

SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME

Sunday, October 9th, 2005
16.00	Course presentation (lecture)
16.15	Measuring disease occurrence (lecture)
16.45	Measuring disease occurence (hands on session)
17.00	Coffee break
17.15	Measuring disease occurrence (hands on session)
18.00	Cohort and case control studies (lecture)
18.45	Session end
20.00	Dinner
Monday, October 10th, 2005
09.00	Study design (hands on session)
10.15	Simple analysis of risk and prevalence data (lecture)
10.45	Coffee break
11.00	Bias and confounding in epidemiologic studies (lecture)
11.45	Confounding (hands on session)
12.00	Ways to address confounding: stratification and regression (lecture)
12.45	Buffet Lunch
13.45	Introduction to SPSS: linear regression and stratification (hands on session)
15.00	Prediction and correction for confounding
15.30	Coffee break
15.45	Survival analysis I – Kaplan Meier (lecture)
16.45	Survival analysis I – Kaplan Meier (hands on session)
17.45	Session end
20.00	Dinner
Tuesday, October 11th, 2005
09.00	Survival analysis II – Cox regression (lecture)
10.00	Survival analysis II – Cox regression (hands on session)
11.30	Coffee break
11.45	Causal effects (lecture)
12.30	Buffet Lunch