FMSC720

Study Design in Maternal Child Health Epidemiology

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Prerequisite: EPIB610. Restriction: Permission of the Family Sciences department. Credit only granted for: EPIB612 or FMSC720. A detailed survey of key epidemiologic study designs provided through readings, lectures, and exercises. Lectures begin by considering the evolution of epidemiologic thought and parallel developments in design of epidemiologic studies. Topics covered include assessment of causality in observational studies, investigation of acute outbreaks, survey design, cohort and case-control study designs, clinical randomized trials, and discussion of issues pertaining to measurement error in the assessment of exposures and outcomes in epdemiologic studies.

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Edmond Shenassa

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Meagan Robinson Maynor

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Edmond Shenassa

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During the Spring 2020 and Spring 2021 semesters, students could choose to take some of their courses pass-fail mid-semester which skews grade data aggregated across multiple semesters.

Average GPA of 3.58 between 33 students*

FMSC720 Grade Distribution+-0510152025303540455055606570% of studentsABCDFWother
A-: 15.15%
A: 42.42%
A+: 9.09%
B: 15.15%
B+: 12.12%
W: 3.03%
other: 3.03%
* "W"s are considered to be 0.0 quality points. "Other" grades are not factored into GPA calculation. Grade data not guaranteed to be correct.