Teaching Epidemiology: A guide for teachers in epidemiology, public health and clinical medicine - Tapa blanda

This third edition marks a timely and worthwhile revision...a valuable reference for teachers at all levels of experience. It serves as an effective guide for instructional design and offers specific information for the diverse subdisciplines and teaching topics in this field. (Doody's Notes)

Now in its third, expanded edition, it represents the expertise of over 40 authors and covers the fundamental and emerging topics important to the modern epidemiology classroom. (University of Iowa College of Public Health)

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.