Program Overview—Spring 2007

2nd Year Medical Students—Preventive Medicine

Large Groups

• Introduction to Epidemiology
• Epidemiology: Association and Causation
• Introduction to Public Health
• Sources of Population Health and Measures of Health and Disease Frquency
• Introduction to Biostatistics I
• Introduction to Biostatistics II
• Research Design I: Experimental Research Designs
• Research Design II: Observational Research Design
• Introduction to Critical Appraisals
• Public Health Preparedness and Response
• Interpreting the Value of Diagnostic Testing
• Clinical Preventive Services
• Review Session

Small Groups

• Outbreak Investigation
• Community Health Assessment
• Infant Mortality
• Critical Appraisal Session I
• Community Outbreak of Illness
• Critical Appraisal Session II
• Outbreak of Tuberculosis in a Homeless Men's Shelter
• Colon Cancer

Clinical Years—Preventive Medicine Teaching

• Bicycle Helmet Effectiveness (Neurology)—Taught every six weeks year round
• Adolescent Suicide Prevention (Psychiatry)—Taught every six weeks year round
• (STD) Sexually Transmitted Disease in Adolescence (Obstetrics/Gynecology)—Taught every six weeks year round—Taught every six weeks year round
• Community Site Visits (Pediatrics)—One of the following site visits is required:
  • Jail
  • Infant Mortality
  • Lead
• All students attend an Early Intervention Program Evaluation (home visit)