Teaching Epidemiology - A Guide for Teachers in Epidemiology, Public Health and Clinical Medicine (Hardcover, 2nd Revised edition)

Teaching epidemiology requires that knowledge should be 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 it. This book aims to help you locate the most important sources of knowledge you need to study before you start, by providing expert teachers' advice on how best to structure teaching. The book should help you plan your own tailored teaching programme. It 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 detail. There is also a focused chapter on the principles and practice of computer assisted learning.