Overview

This module aims to provide the students with an overview of the science and practice of preventive medicine. It also equips them with the basic skills of estimating and evaluating the accuracy of diagnostic and screening tests. By the end of this module, the students should be able to describe the levels of prevention and the differences and the methodological issues related to each one of them.

Presentation

Please find the pre-seminar record below:

02. Prevention and Diagnosis (Record) 2023/24

Please find the PowerPoint presentation of the seminar below:

Resources

• Required Resources (compulsory)

1. Clinical Epidemiology: The Essentials. Chapter 4: Diagnosis (from the beginning of the chapter till page 59)
   N.B. In case you are studying from the previous edition (fifth edition) of Clinical Epidemiology: The Essentials, you should study Chapter 8: Diagnosis (from the beginning of the chapter till page 115)
   
2. Clinical Epidemiology: The Essentials. Chapter 10: Prevention
3. Basic Epidemiology: Primordial Prevention (pages 103 - 105)
4. The following videos:

• Recommended Resources (not compulsory)

1. Public Health Textbook. Principles, methods, applications and organisation of screening for early detection, prevention, treatment and control of disease
2. Public Health Textbook. Differences between screening and diagnostic tests and case finding
3. Public Health Textbook. Statistical aspects of screening tests, including knowledge of and ability to calculate, sensitivity, specificity, positive and negative predictive values, and the use of ROC curves

Assignment