Key Clinical Epidemiological Concepts

Key Clinical Epidemiological Concepts

This page contains Key Points documents and videos created by DPM faculty for the Clinical Epidemiology and Population Health longitudinal curriculum at Harvard Medical School. These documents and videos are included in preparatory materials for the course, and we build on these concepts in lectures and small group sessions.

Core Clinical Epidemiology Concepts (Essentials of the Profession I)
Study Design and Causality | Video: incidence and prevalence
Measures of Frequency and Association
Statistics
Descriptive Statistics | Video (Coming Soon)
Sampling Distribution
Interpreting Statistics in Clinical Research
Bias, Confounding and Effect Modification | Video: effect modification (Coming Soon)
Randomized Controlled Trials
Power and Sample Size Estimation
Multivariable Modeling | Video: interpreting correlation coefficient and simple linear regression (Coming Soon)
Diagnostic Testing and Screening

Finding and Appraising the Evidence (Transitions to the Principal Clinical Experience)
Evidence Based Medicine: Types of Evidence (Coming Soon)
Background and Foreground Questions and Resources (Coming Soon) | Video from Countway Librarians (Coming Soon)

Advanced Clinical Epidemiology and Population Health Concepts (Essentials of the Profession II)
Quasi-Experimental Study Designs (Coming Soon)
Machine Learning (Coming Soon)
Cost-Effective Analysis (Coming Soon)