Teaching Epidemiology: What You Should Know And What You Could Do

By Jørn Olsen and Dimitrios Trichopoulos

Book Overview

Teaching Epidemiology requires skill and knowledge, combined with a clear teaching strategy and good pedagogic skills. The general advice is simple: if you are not an expert on a topic, try to enrich your background knowledge before you start teaching. Teaching Epidemiology third edition helps you to do this, and by providing the world-expert teacher's advice on how best to structure teaching gives a unique insight in to what has worked in their hands. The book will help you plan your own tailored teaching programme.The book is a guide to new teachers in the field at two levels; those teaching basic courses for undergraduates, and those teaching more advanced courses for students at postgraduate level. Each chapter provides key concepts and a list of key references. Subject specific methodology and disease specific issues (from cancer to genetic epidemiology) are dealt with in details. There is also a focused chapter on the principles and practice of computer-assisted learning.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199239479
• ISBN13: 9780199239474
• Release Date: June 2010
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 576 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 9.1" x 6.0"