Summer Courses – Academic Fellowship
| Intensive Summer Courses in Epidemiology and Biostatistic In 1988, the SPH’s Epidemiology and Biostatistics Department developed the intensive summer course in research methods for academic physicians. This course is taken by fellows to ‘jumpstart’ their first research project which can then begin by the fall or early winter of their first fellowship year. To intelligently select a project and plan its experimental design, the fellows need to be exposed to basic statistical and epidemiological principles and techniques as soon as possible in their training. The summer course, now two separate courses: EB703, Introduction to Biostatistics and EB712, Introduction to Epidemiology, fulfills this need. Each course meets for one and one-half hours per session for 16 sessions over four weeks. Students are required to have sufficient medical and analytic background to maintain a fast pace of instruction, focused on examples drawn from the clinical literature. The size of the class is limited to facilitate interaction among students and the instructors. After the completion of this course, fellows are ready to plan research projects and to take intermediate to advanced courses in statistics and epidemiology in the fall of their first year. |