Teaching

Course Taught 

PHCY 433
Drug Literature Analysis and Interpretation
Module III: Evidence-based Health Care and critical Appraisal
students in the second professional year learn the tools of Evidence-based therapeutics and critical appraisal of the literature and their relevance to life-long learning. Topics include causal inference, study design, and conduct of randomized clinical trials; cohort, case-control, and cross-sectional studies; bias in clinical research; and clinical practice guidelines.

DPOP 804
Informatics: Use of Large  Health Care  Databases
This is an interdisciplinary course providing practical training in the analysis of large secondary databases containing physician, hospital, and prescription data.  Course topics include preparation, algorithm development, quality control, and dataset limitations.
The course provides graduate students and professional students planning a career in health services research and/or pharmacoepidemiology an introduction to secondary data analysis.  The course explores the challenges and opportunities of working with large health datasets, including databases created for administrative and clinical purposes.  In addition, the course will help prepare students for careers in research and program evaluation.