Pharmacoepidemiology

EPI 221 Subject & Catalog Number

Description

Course Description
This course provides an overview on the inference about the effects of pharmaceuticals and other medical products on health outcomes generated from case reports, case series, vital statistics and other registration schemes, cohort studies, and case-control studies. Decision-making with inadequate and imperfect data is examined from the perspectives of researchers, manufacturers, and regulators. This course is intended primarily as an introduction to pharmacoepidemiology for students wishing to pursue a career in pharmacoepidemiology, as a survey course for those who may be consumers of pharmacoepidemiologic studies, and as an applied mid-level course for those who may have more general interest in methods.

Course Activities: Written individual and group assignments, modelled after real-world scientific contributions (e.g., letter to the editor, peer review of pharmacoepidemiologic study) and class discussion.

Course Note: Knowledge of epidemiology at the level of EPI 201 and a basic understanding of drug use and nomenclature are assumed.