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Graduate Course Proposal Form Submission Detail - NGR6673
Tracking Number - 2149
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Campus:
Submission Type: New
Course Change Information (for course changes only):
Comments: GC approved 10/20/08; SCNS approved 4/8/09
Detail Information
- Date & Time Submitted: 2008-09-16
- Department: Nursing
- College: NR
- Budget Account Number: HSC-006201-10000
- Contact Person: Mary Webb
- Phone: x9133
- Email: mwebb@health.usf.edu
- Prefix: NGR
- Number: 6673
- Full Title: Epidemiology for Advanced Nursing
- Credit Hours: 3
- Section Type: C -
Class Lecture (Primarily)
- Is the course title variable?: N
- Is a permit required for registration?: N
- Are the credit hours variable?: N
- Is this course repeatable?:
- If repeatable, how many times?: 0
- Abbreviated Title (30 characters maximum): Epidemiology for Adv Nursing
- Course Online?: -
- Percentage Online:
- Grading Option:
R - Regular
- Prerequisites: Graduate standing or instructor permission
- Corequisites:
- Course Description: This course assists graduate level nurses to identify and describe patterns of disease occurrence and to evaluate potential determinants of disease and disease prevention.
- Please briefly explain why it is necessary and/or desirable to add this course: Since nurse practitioners must stay abreast of medical research and be able to evaluate its merits with regard to scientific rigor and its application to specific patient populations, having a fundamental understanding of the basic principles of epidemiol
- What is the need or demand for this course? (Indicate if this course is part of a required sequence in the major.) What other programs would this course service? Required course in the DNP degree
- Has this course been offered as Selected Topics/Experimental Topics course? If yes, how many times? Yes, twice.
- What qualifications for training and/or experience are necessary to teach this course? (List minimum qualifications for the instructor.) Ph.D.
- Objectives: Relate how the history and role of epidemiology serve as the basic science for Public Health.
Recognize the purpose and scope of clinical epidemiology.
Apply a population-based perspective of disease and other health-related events.
Recognize ethical and professional issues in conducting epidemiologic research in human populations.
Calculate and interpret epidemiologic measures of disease occurrence.
Calculate and interpret measures of effect used to compare the risk of disease between populations and subgroups.
Compare and contrast the features, strengths, and limitations of descriptive, observational, and experimental epidemiologic studies.
Distinguish between association and causation, including knowledge of criteria used to evaluate causal associations.
Identify the roles of chance, bias, and confounding in the evaluation of epidemiologic research.
Evaluate and interpret the presence of effect measure modification (interaction).
Calculate and interpret measures of public health impact.
Identify the role of screening and public health surveillance in clinical epidemiology.
Recognize the purpose and methodological principles involved in conducting meta-analyses.
Recognize the impact of racial, ethnic, and cultural variability in epidemiologic research.
- Learning Outcomes: Relate how the history and role of epidemiology serve as the basic science for Public Health.
Recognize the purpose and scope of clinical epidemiology.
Apply a population-based perspective of disease and other health-related events.
Recognize ethical and professional issues in conducting epidemiologic research in human populations.
Calculate and interpret epidemiologic measures of disease occurrence.
Calculate and interpret measures of effect used to compare the risk of disease between populations and subgroups.
Compare and contrast the features, strengths, and limitations of descriptive, observational, and experimental epidemiologic studies.
Distinguish between association and causation, including knowledge of criteria used to evaluate causal associations.
Identify the roles of chance, bias, and confounding in the evaluation of epidemiologic research.
Evaluate and interpret the presence of effect measure modification (interaction).
Calculate and interpret measures of public health impact.
Identify the role of screening and public health surveillance in clinical epidemiology.
Recognize the purpose and methodological principles involved in conducting meta-analyses.
Recognize the impact of racial, ethnic, and cultural variability in epidemiologic research.
- Major Topics: Class Session/Topic
Introduction to epidemiology
Labor Day – No CLASS
Measures of disease occurrence
Descriptive epidemiology
Exam #1 (In class, 1st half of class). Analytic epidemiology and measures of effect
Review Exam #1 (1st half of class)
Finish analytic epidemiology and measures of effect
Evaluating associations – chance, bias, confounding, and causality
Exam #2 (In class, 1st half of class)
Methods to control confounding
Review Exam #2 (1st half of class)
Effect modification (interaction)
Intervention studies
Exam #3 – take home exam, assigned and reviewed in class
Cohort studies
Case control and case-crossover studies
Exam #3 (take home) due
Review Session for Exam #4
(First hour of class)
Exam #4 (In class)
Review Exam #4 (1st half of class)
Measures of public health impact
Screening
Meta-analysis
Race, ethnicity, and culture in epidemiological research
Final Exam review
Final Exam (Exam #5 – in class)
- Textbooks: Required text: Noel S. Weiss, Clinical Epidemiology: The Study of the Outcome of
Illness. Third Edition, 2006: available at the USF Health Sciences Bookstore
Other helpful texts: John M. Last, A Dictionary of Epidemiology, Fourth Edition,
Epidemiology for Public Health Practice, 3rd edition (2004), Friis and Sellers
Outside readings: As assigned and made available on Blackboard
Basic calculator: Required for lectures and exams
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- if you have questions about any of these fields, please contact chinescobb@grad.usf.edu or joe@grad.usf.edu.