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JSM 2002 Abstract #300015
Activity Number: 83
Type: Invited
Date/Time: Monday, August 12, 2002 : 10:30 AM to 12:20 PM
Sponsor: Section on Statistics in Epidemiology*
Abstract - #300015
Title: EXCITE: Excellence in Curriculum Integration through Teaching Epidemiology--Statistics Students as Disease Detectives
Author(s): Richard Goodman*+
Affiliation(s): Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Address: 1600 Clifton Rd, NE, Atlanta, Georgia, 30333, USA
Keywords: epidemiology ; curriculum integration ; teaching statistcs ; web-based instruction
Abstract:

Recent technological developments bring clear benefits to society. Nonetheless, critiques of education have noted that students complete formal education with inadequate skills in mathematics, science, and health. While clinical medicine considers the individual as its focus for study, public health is fundamentally concerned with the population or community. Statistics, the science of finding patterns by analyzing variability in data, is essential to understanding problems of disease in human populations. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has developed a Web-based curriculum for teaching epidemiology as a context for statistical training. The module is developed from outbreaks investigated by CDC Disease Detectives. The module will equip the student to interpret the meaning of risk factors for health conditions; use comparative reasoning to evaluate risks for health conditions; apply the scientific method to real-life situations affecting human populations; use mathematics and statistics in assessing risks for disease; and design and conduct various statistical studies.

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