Training and Research

PhD Programme Courses/classes

Clinical Biochemistry and Clinical Molecular Biology

Credits: 5

Language: Italiano

Teacher:  Giuseppe Lippi, Dott.ssa Laura Pighi

Virus oncogeni

Credits: 2

Language: Italiano

Teacher:  Davide Gibellini

Oral Pathology

Credits: 2

Language: Italiano/English

Teacher:  Dario Bertossi

Experimental approaches to study FGFR3-related diseases

Credits: 2

Language: English

Teacher:  Patricia Lievens

Meccanismi molecolari nei processi di differenziamento staminale

Credits: 2.5

Language: Italiano

Teacher:  Maria Teresa Valenti

Emerging viruses and zoonosis

Credits: 3

Language: Italiano

Teacher:  Donato Zipeto

Corso di approfondimento sul virus dell'Immunodeficienza umana HIV

Credits: 2.5

Language: English

Teacher:  Alessandra Ruggiero

Corso di OMICA applicato alla medicina

Credits: 5

Language: English

Teacher:  Alessandra Ruggiero

Developmental encephalopathies from diagnosis to precision medicine

Credits: 1

Language: Italiano

Teacher:  Francesca Darra

Bioinformatics applied to genomics

Credits: 2

Language: Italiana e Inglese

Teacher:  Maria Romanelli

Epidemiologic Methodology

Credits: 3

Language: Italiano/English

Teacher:  Maria Elisabetta Zanolin

Il disegno degli studi osservazionali

Credits: 3

Language: Italiano/English

Teacher:  Maria Elisabetta Zanolin

central auditory deseses

Credits: 2.5

Language: Italiano

Teacher:  Luca Sacchetto

New strategies to figth antimicrobial resistance

Credits: 2

Language: Italiano

Teacher:  Annarita Mazzariol

Translational research in long COVID

Credits: 1.5

Language: Italiano / Inglese

Teacher:  Evelina Tacconelli

R avanzanto per gli studi del Genoma umano

Credits: 3

Language: English or Italian

Teacher:  Giovanni Malerba

Genetics of complex traits

Credits: 2

Language: English

Teacher:  Giovanni Malerba

Citometria a flusso: principi ed applicazioni

Credits: 2

Language: Italiano/English

Teacher:  Maria Scupoli

Global Health: Determinanti di salute, fattori di rischio, stili di vita e disuguaglianze in sanità

Credits: 2

Language: Italiano

Teacher:  Stefano Tardivo

Bench to bedside infectious diseases - the immunocompromised patient

Credits: 1

Language: Italiano/English

Teacher:  Elda Righi

Oral microbiota and cancer: from clinic to research

Credits: 2.5

Language: Italiano

Teacher:  Nicoletta Zerman

Credits

3

Language

Italiano/English

Class attendance

Free Choice

Location

VERONA

Learning objectives

The course aims to provide the skills to use and interpret the main epidemiological measures of frequency and association.

Prerequisites and basic notions

None

Program

- THE MEASUREMENT OF DISEASES IN A HUMAN POPULATION:
. INCIDENCE
. CUMULATIVE INCIDENCE
. PREVALENCE
- MEASUREMENT OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EXPOSURE AND DISEASE:
. ABSOLUTE RISK MODELS.
RELATIVE RISK MODELS
- RISK ESTIMATION AND SURVEY DESIGN
- BASIC CONCEPTS OF MODERN EPIDEMIOLOGY
. DETERMINANT
. EFFECT MODIFIER
. CONFOUNDING
- TECHNIQUES FOR CONTROL OF CONFOUNDINGS IN DESIGN AND ANALYSIS

Didactic methods

Frontal lessons

Learning assessment procedures

Written exam with multiple choice questions

Students with disabilities or specific learning disorders (SLD), who intend to request the adaptation of the exam, must follow the instructions given HERE

Assessment

The ability to calculate and interpret what is illustrated in the course will be assessed.

Criteria for the composition of the final grade

Single mark obtained in the test

Scheduled Lessons

When Classroom Teacher topics
Thursday 09 May 2024
14:30 - 17:30
Duration: 3:00 AM
Aula farmacologia Maria Elisabetta Zanolin Introduzione all'epidemiologia. Gli oggetti dell'epidemiologia (outcome, determinante, parametro d'outcome, relazione d'occorrenza). Le misure di frequenza: prevalenza, incidenza, incidenza cumulativa. I tassi di mortalità. Relazione tra incidenza e prevalenza.
Thursday 16 May 2024
14:30 - 17:30
Duration: 3:00 AM
Aula Farmacologia Maria Elisabetta Zanolin Metodologia epidemiologica: introduzione all'epidemiologia
Thursday 23 May 2024
14:30 - 17:30
Duration: 3:00 AM
Aula Farmacologia Maria Elisabetta Zanolin Metodologia epidemiologica
Thursday 30 May 2024
14:30 - 17:30
Duration: 3:00 AM
Aula Farmacologia Maria Elisabetta Zanolin Metodologia epidemiologica