Dear Applicants,
We have scheduled our next Basics of Epidemiology, Research  and Stata course in  12 July - 16 August, 2024 |  Fri-Sat | 06:00 pm - 9:45 pm (40 hours) 

Course Facilitator:
Dr. Md. Manirul Islam
MBBS (K-39), MCPS (Psych), DPH
MMedSc (Australia), PhD (Japan)
Taught at BSMMU, Dhaka, Chittagong and Khulna Medical Colleges and 20 years at icddr,b.

Dr. MA Salam
MBBS (K-28)
Ex-Director, Research and Clinical Administration & Strategy
icddr,b

Course Content:
Epidemiology; concept and application, Epidemiological triad, basic measurements in Epidemiology (ratio, proportion, rate, incidence, cumulative incidence, incidence rate, prevalence, attack rate etc.). Research Cycle: the basic concept, research team, and assignment of responsibility and authorship of future manuscript to avoid potential controversies. Selection of a research topic. What we know about the research topic: literature search and managing references with Zotero. Research question to research protocol development; Structuring and writing different sections of research protocol for scientific review and ethical clearance.  Methodology- study population, study design (case report, case series, ecological, cross-sectional, sampling techniques, sample size calculation using Stata, participant recruitment and dealing with gate keepers. Case-control study (design, conduction, analysis and interpretation, case study, creating variables, data management, calculation in Stata, descriptive and inferential statistics in Stata). Prospective of Cohort Study (design, conduction, analysis- calculation in Stata, and interpretation, Case study, estimation of risk: Risk Ratio (RR), Attributable risk (AR), Population Attributable Risk (PAR). Clinical Trial (design, conduction, analysis- calculation in Stata, and interpretation, case study) , concept of causality. Screening in health: sensitivity, specificity, predictive values, efficiency of a test, ROC curve and establishing cutoff points, exercise. Bias in epidemiological studies (selection bias, information bias, confounding etc.), Standardization of rates. Outbreak Investigation: steps and exercise, Ethical issues in research and publication. Data collection tool development, Writing results; text, table and graph. Drafting a manuscript, acknowledgement of support, disclosing conflict of interest- sharing real life scenarios Review of manuscript by peer or someone knowledgeable- information on potential resource persons (paid or volunteer), deciding about potential journal for submission, drafting a cover letter and sharing it to all authors and fine touch before submission.

Eligibility:
At least 16 years of schooling; preferably from science background. Medical and Dental graduates interested in research or pursuing post graduate degree are preferred.  

Course Fee:
3900 BDT for Bangladesh national or 50 US $ for others (Non refundable)

Please check your Spam or Trash box if you do not get our reply within reasonable time.