In 2011, four graduate students enrolled in our core curriculum took a
course called Practical I for international infection control nursing.
These included one student in our advanced program and three students in
our professional program.
 Training:FETP-J (Field Epidemiology Training Program Introductory Course）
Date:April 4 to 28, 2011
Place:
Infectious Disease Surveillance Center (IDSC)
National Institute of Infectious Diseases (NIID)
Toyama 1-23-1, Shinjuku-ku, TOKYO, 162-8640, JAPAN
Contents:
Lecture
- 1. Field Epidemiology and FETP
- 2. Disease transmission and control
2. Epidemiology
- 1. Descriptive epidemiology
- 2. Study design
- 3. Measure of association
- 4. Sampling methods
- 5. Choice of comparison groups
- 6. Rates, ratios, and proportions
- 7. Bias and causality
- 8. Confounding
- 9. Matching
- 10. Statistics for field
epidemiology
- 11. Sensitivity & Specificity
- 12. Measurement of Impact
- 13. Basic Statistics
3. Surveillance
- 1. Assessment of surveillance system
- 2. Principle of disease surveillance
- 3. Principles of outbreak investigation
- 4. Nosocomial Staphylococcus aureus
outbreak
- 5. Nosocomial infection control
- 6. Outbreak investigation
- 7. Food-borne Diseases
- 8. Parasitic diseases
- 9. Bacterial diseases (VRE, MRSA, etc)
- 10. Zoonoses
- 11. Viral diseases (polio etc
.)
- 12. Viral diseases (vector-borne)
- 13. Viral diseases (measles,
influenza, etc.)
4. Administration in Japan
- 1. TB control and prevention in Japan
- 2. Vaccine-preventable diseases in Japan
- 3. Surveillance system in Japan
- 4. Laws & Regulations (infectious disease)
- 5. Laws & Regulations (food safety)
- 6. Laws & Regulations (school health)
- 7. Laws & Regulations (quarantine)
- 8. Laws & Regulations (risk management)
- 9. Global network for
communicable disease control and prevention
- 10. Risk assessment for food
safety
5. Exercise
- 1. Disease transmission and control
- 2. Meningitis outbreak
- 3. Cigarette smoking and lung cancer
- 4. Surveillance system design
- 5. An outbreak of gastrointestinal illness
following a church supper
- 6. "Alcohol"... confounding
- 7. Multi-state outbreak of E. coli
- 8. Bacterial diseases (EHEC,etc.)
- 9. Measles in a divided city - Texarkana
- 10. Mini-project
- 11. Presentation of mini-project
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