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© 1984 Oxford University Press

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Epidemiology for Medical Students: A Course Relevant to Clinical Practice

F G R FOWKES, S H GEHLBACH, S C FARROW, R R WEST and C J ROBERTS

Department of Epidemiology and Community Medicine, Welsh National School od Medicine, Health Park Cardiff CF4 4XN, UK.

Fowkes F G R (Department of Epidemiology and Community Medicine, Welsh National School of Medicine, Heath Park, Cardiff, CF4 4XN, UK), Gehlbach S H, Farrow S C, West R R and Roberts C J. Epidemiology for medical students: a course relevant to clinical practice. International Journal of Epidemiology 1984, 13: 538–541.

A new course was designed to make epidemiology clinically relevant to medical undergraduates. The objectives were that students should (1) know the epidemiology of common diseases, (2) understand epidemiological concepts useful in diagnosis and treatment, and (3) be able to critically assess published medical evidence. Results of a written examination showed that objectives 1 and 2 had been ‘easily’ achieved by 80% and 68% of students respectively. Student opinion of the course, assessed by an anonymous questionnaire, showed that the majority of students considered the course to be an important part of medical education. Before the course 19% felt ‘reasonably able’ or ‘very able’ to achieve nine specific objectives related to epidemiological concepts in diagnosis and treatment. By the end of the course this had risen to 78%.

Received 1 July 1983


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