This course will examine the major pathological processes of humans and the chemical, biological and physical aspects of altered states of health that are relevant to public health practitioners and researchers. Specifically, the pathophysiological mechanisms of disease will be examined with a view to understanding the anatomical, physiological, cellular, biochemical and molecular processes that are associated with diseases that affect the public's health.
EPID812
Critical Appraisal of Pathobiology
Winter
term(s)
2 Credit Hour(s)
Instructor(s):
Barbosa-Cesnik, Cibele; Staff
Offered every year
Last offered Winter 2008
Prerequisites: Grad Standing & Perm. Instr
This course is for doctoral students in the Epidemiology department that are preparing for the Preliminary Examination. This course will integrate basic concepts of disease mechanisms with the biology and epidemiology of representative human diseases. Students will be required to give a presentation on a selected disease and discuss what is known of the pathogenesis of disease as well as how epidemiologic students inform pathogeneis and how knowledge of pathoggeneis informs epidemiologic studies.
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