HS161: Epi Assignments

All assignments are due at the beginning of the following week, unless noted otherwise.

Consider joining the epi electronic Email list. To subscribe, send a message to listserv@listproc.sjsu.edu. The body of the message should say "subscribe epi FirstName Lastname" (no quotes, adapted appropriately). Once you are subscribed, send questions and messages to epi@listproc.sjsu.edu.

Class Assigned Reading Assigned Exercises

1 (Why study epi?) Preface

2 (Epi Past & Present) Chapter 1 (all) Descriptive Epidemiology of Esophageal Cancer, due 9/19

3 (Selected Concepts) Chapter 2 (all) Quiz next week

4 (Infectious Disease Process) Chapter 3 (pp. 38 - 47) Quiz next week

5 (Prevalence and Incidence) Chapter 6, but w/ simpler terminology:
cumulative incidence = risk
incidence density = rate Text pp. 102 #1, p. 103 #3 (w/ changed terminology)

Web 6.1 and 6.2 (turn in)

6 (Prep for midterm) Review, esp. prevalence and incidence Midterm next week

7

(Relative Risk and Risk Difference)
Midterm (first hour)

Chapter 8 (pp. 120 - 121 only), but with simpler terminology, see Learning Objective Notes
Text p. 135 #2 & #3

Web 8.2 (turn in)

8 (Potpourri) Important announcements Anthrax exercise (due 10/31)

9 (Studies of Etiology) Chapter 9, pp. 139 - 141 Practice: text pp. 157 - 158 (answer either clinical trial, com trial, cohort, case-control, cross-sectional)

Web exercises: Web 9A.1 and 9A.2

10 (Trials & Cohort Studies) Chapter 9, pp. 152 - 155 (clin. trials)
Chapter 8, pp. 146 - 148 (cohort studies)
Web exercises: 9B.1, 9B.2, 9B.3, 9C.2

11 (Case-Control Studies) Notes linked to case-control learning objectives. Web exercises 9D:3-7.

Resubmit 9A Exercises

12 (Cross-Sectional Studies) Notes linked to cross-sectional study learning objectives.

Preview of Causal Inference: text pp. 201 - 211.
Web exercise 9E.1A-B, 9E.2, 9E.4, 9E.5 (due 11/28)

13(Causal Inference) Independent study pp. 201 - 211 in text. (The class, itself, is canceled.) Text p. 212 exercises 1 & 2 (do not hand in).

Quiz next week.

14 (Bias) pp. 161 - 163 para.1
pp. 183 - 188 para. 2 Text pp. 196-197: 1(all), 2(all), 3(all), 4(A-C)

15 (Review) Prep for final

Final is XX/XX/XX @

Class	Assigned Reading	Assigned Exercises
1 (Why study epi?)	Preface
2 (Epi Past & Present)	Chapter 1 (all)	Descriptive Epidemiology of Esophageal Cancer, due 9/19
3 (Selected Concepts)	Chapter 2 (all)	Quiz next week
4 (Infectious Disease Process)	Chapter 3 (pp. 38 - 47)	Quiz next week
5 (Prevalence and Incidence)	Chapter 6, but w/ simpler terminology: cumulative incidence = risk incidence density = rate	Text pp. 102 #1, p. 103 #3 (w/ changed terminology) Web 6.1 and 6.2 (turn in)
6 (Prep for midterm)	Review, esp. prevalence and incidence	Midterm next week
7 (Relative Risk and Risk Difference)	Midterm (first hour) Chapter 8 (pp. 120 - 121 only), but with simpler terminology, see Learning Objective Notes	Text p. 135 #2 & #3 Web 8.2 (turn in)
8 (Potpourri)	Important announcements	Anthrax exercise (due 10/31)
9 (Studies of Etiology)	Chapter 9, pp. 139 - 141	Practice: text pp. 157 - 158 (answer either clinical trial, com trial, cohort, case-control, cross-sectional) Web exercises: Web 9A.1 and 9A.2
10 (Trials & Cohort Studies)	Chapter 9, pp. 152 - 155 (clin. trials) Chapter 8, pp. 146 - 148 (cohort studies)	Web exercises: 9B.1, 9B.2, 9B.3, 9C.2
11 (Case-Control Studies)	Notes linked to case-control learning objectives.	Web exercises 9D:3-7. Resubmit 9A Exercises
12 (Cross-Sectional Studies)	Notes linked to cross-sectional study learning objectives. Preview of Causal Inference: text pp. 201 - 211.	Web exercise 9E.1A-B, 9E.2, 9E.4, 9E.5 (due 11/28)
13(Causal Inference)	Independent study pp. 201 - 211 in text. (The class, itself, is canceled.)	Text p. 212 exercises 1 & 2 (do not hand in). Quiz next week.
14 (Bias)	pp. 161 - 163 para.1 pp. 183 - 188 para. 2	Text pp. 196-197: 1(all), 2(all), 3(all), 4(A-C)
15 (Review)	Prep for final