Master Class in Clinical Epidemiology

23^rd – 24^th June 2014, 9-17 pm at King’s College London, Guy’s Campus, London, UK.

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This course aims to teach and improve the participants’ understanding of the basic methods in clinical epidemiology so that they can accurately review and help design good quality clinical research.

These two days will guide the students from a basic introduction in epidemiology to causal inference, study design, meta-analysis, validity of studies, interpretation of basic statistics, clinical trial design and screening methodology. This wide range of epidemiological tools will be discussed in such a way that the students can immediately apply these skills in their daily clinical or scientific practice.

The course has the following objectives:

• To obtain an overview of the concepts underlying clinical epidemiology
• To understand current clinical applications and future perspectives of patient data analysis
• To appreciate why study design is critical to epidemiology and why epidemiology is critical to clinical studies
• To interpret the results of statistical inferential procedures including p-values, confidence intervals, and risk ratios.

The course is designed for a wide range of public health professionals (junior clinical researchers, medical research fellows, nurses ...) and scientists with various backgrounds in academic and industrial setting, as well as PhD students with an interest in clinical epidemiology.

The course fee is £200 with discounts for students, KCL alumni, and members of staff (King's Health Partners). To book please apply through the KCL Short Courses website: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/prospectus/shortcourses/index/name/l491kj50clinepi/keyword/medicine

For any enquiries please contact Rosemary Drescher, phone 020 71889286, [log in to unmask].