Calendar for Fall, 2009

PADM 5324

Foundations of Epidemiology

(Please see summary of changes in this calendar at the bottom

of this calendar.)

 

WEEK 1 -- Week beginning August 16, 2000

 

August 17

Classes begin; Faculty begin ongoing attendance verification process

 

Tuesday, August 18

 FIRST CLASS MEETING

 

WEEK 2 -- Week beginning August 23, 2009

Tuesday, August 25

 

Biostatistics and Epidemiology within the Paradigm of Public Health

 

  • Gordis: Chapter 1 Introduction
  • Gordia: Chapter 2 The Dynamics of Disease Transmission

 

WEEK 3 -- Week beginning August 30, 2009

Tuesday, September 1

 

  • Gordis: Chapters 3 Measuring the Occurrence of Morbidity
  • Gordis: Chapter 4: Measuring the Occurrence of Mortality

 

WEEK 4 -- Week beginning September 6, 2009

 

Tuesday, September 8

 

  • Gordis: Chapter 5 Assessing the Validity and Reliability of Diagnostic and Screening Tests
  • Gordis: Chapter 6 The Natural History of Disease: Ways of Expressing Prognosis

 

WEEK 5 -- Week beginning September 13, 2009

Tuesday, September 15

·        Gordis: Chapter 7 Asssessing the Efficacy of Preventive and Therapeutic Measures

·        Gordis: Chapter 8 Randomized Trials: Some Further Issues

WEEK 6 -- Week beginning September 20, 2009

Tuesday, September 22

 

  • Gordis: Chapter 9 Cohort Studies
  • Gordis: Chapter 10 Case-Control Studies and Other Study Designs

 

WEEK 7 -- Week beginning September 27, 2009

Tuesday, September 29

 

  • Gordis: Chapter 11 Estimating Risk: Is There an Association?
  • Gordis: Chapter 12 More on Risk: Estimating the Potential for Prevention

 

WEEK 8 -- Week beginning October 4, 2009

 

October 9 

Mid-term grades for all students due in Banner Web by 3 p.m. 

 

Tuesday, October 6

 

MIDTERM EXAMINATION

 

WEEK 9 -- Week beginning October 11, 2009

 

October 14 

Last day to drop a course and withdraw from school with a grade of “W” 

 

Tuesday, October 13

·        Gordis: Chapter 13 A Pause for Review: Comparing Cohort and Case-Control Studies

·        Gordis: Chapter 14 From Association to Causation: Deriving Inference from Epidemiologic Studies

WEEK 10 -- Week beginning October 18, 2009

Tuesday, October 20

 

  • Gordis: Chapter 15 More on Causal Inferences: Bias, Confounding, and Interaction
  • Gordis: Chapter 16 Identifying the Roles of Genetic and Environmental Factors in Disease Causation
  • HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT 1 DUE
  • HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT 2 DUE (LIKELY TO BE MOVED TO LATER)

 

 

WEEK 11 -- Week beginning October 25, 2009

Tuesday, October 27

·        Gordis: Chapter 17 Using Epidemiology to Evaluate Health Services

·        Gordis: Chapter 18 The Epidemiologic Approach to Evaluating Screening Programs

WEEK 12 -- Week beginning November 1, 2009

Tuesday, November 3

·        Gordis: Chapter 19 Epidemiology and Public Policy

·        Gordis: Chapter 20 Ethical and Professional Issues in Epidemiology

WEEK 13 -- Week beginning November 8, 2009

Tuesday, November 10

·        Catch up and review

WEEK 14 -- Week beginning November 15, 2009

 

November 17

Deadline to remove “I” and “IP” grades before automatic “F”

 

 

Tuesday, November 17

 

  • HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT 3 DUE

 

WEEK 15 -- Week beginning November 22, 2009

November 25 - 27

Thanksgiving Holidays

 

Tuesday, November 24

 

THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY

 

WEEK 16 -- Week beginning November 29, 2009

 

December 3

Grades due in Banner Web before 3 p.m. for potential graduates 

 

Tuesday, December 1

  • FINAL EXAM FOR POTENTIAL GRADUATES
  • COURSE TERM PAPER DUE

WEEK 17 -- Week beginning November 27, 2009

 

 

Tuesday, December 8

  • FINAL EXAM FOR ALL STUDENTS

 

 

CHANGES TO THE CALENDAR

  • I changed the due dates of the three homework assignments on Sept. 1, 2009.
  • Homework 1 delayed or possibly to be deleted on Sept. 22, 2009.
  • Homework 1 moved to due date of Oct. 18 on September 29, 2009.