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• Course length: 15 weeks

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College of Medicine	Activity
1: Course Introduction	Academic Integrity Form (I, G) Student Questionnaire Form (I, G) Lesson Review Worksheet (I, G) Team Introduction (T, G)
2: Exposure Concept	The Exposure Concept: Lesson Review Worksheet (I, G) Misconceptions around Human Exposure (I, G) 9-11 Lessons Learned (T, G)
3: Exposure Assessment - Foundations	Biomarker Analysis (T, G) Development of an Exposure Assessment Plan (T, G)
4: Exposure Assessment - Applications	Inferences, Assumptions, and Limitations in Exposure Assessment (T, G) Exposure Assessment Elements (I, G)
5: Outbreak Investigation	Epi-curve Construction and Interpretation (I, G)
6: Measures of Disease Frequency and Association	Measures of Disease Frequency and Association Activity (I, G)
7: Surveillance and Data Sources	Evaluation of Surveillance Systems (I, G) Other Surveillance Systems (I, G)
8: Mid-term Assessment	Mid-term Assessment (I, G)
9: Epidemiological Study Design (Part 1)	Advantages and Disadvantages of a Cross-sectional Study (I, G) Formulation of a Study Hypothesis (T, G)
10: Epidemiological Study Design (Part 2)	Advantages and Disadvantages of a Cohort Study (I, G) Major Issues in a Cohort Study (T, G)
11: Chance, Bias, Confounding, and Effect Modification	Identifying the Epidemiological Hypothesis Worksheet (I, G) Statistical Association vs. Causality (T, G)
12: Case Study: 9-11 Ground Zero	Exposure Assessment at the Disaster Scene at Ground Zero (I, G) Determination of Health Effects of Exposure to Ground Zero (T, G)
13: Case Study: Avian Influenza	Epidemiological Features of Avian Influenza A (H5N1) Virus Infection (T, G) Initiation of an Epidemiological Investigation of Avian Influenza (I, G) Detection, Investigation, and Reporting of Early Epidemiological Signals of Avian Influenza (T, G)
14: Common Statistics and Measures in Epidemiology	Sharing Experience in using Epidemiological Data (T, G) Further Understanding Relative Risk (I, G)
15: Final week	Article Critique (I, G)