Facultad de Medicina de la Universidad de La Frontera
Manuel Montt 112 P-3
Tel: (56) 45-325740
Fax: (56) 45 325741 Temuco - Chile
E-mail: ciges@ufro.cl

The CIGES, has teaching activities for undergraduate and post-graduate students. For undergraduates, we highlight our courses in Clinical Epidemiology for students of 3rd year of Medicine, and Epidemiology for students of Nutrition, Medical Technology, Kinesiology and Obstetric.

In Post-Graduates, we highlight our Program of Graduate and Masters in Clinical Epidemiology, also the courses of Medicine Based on Evidences for the specialization programs of medicine. On March 2001, begin the Graduate and Masters Program in Statistics Applied to the Health Sciences.

Our main goal with this Post-Graduate Program is to stimulate the knowledge and the appliances of Clinical Epidemiology in a local, national and international level.

This program was the first in its type in Latin America and currently is one of the four Masters Program in Clinical Epidemiology functioning in the south cone.

Through the two year training, our graduate students get the knowledge, and skills in Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Social Sciences, Heath Economics and management; enabling them to take decisions based on scientific evidences, evaluating medical procedures or techniques, also to perform clinical research.


Candidate Profile

The program of Graduate and MasteThe program of Graduate and Masters in Clinical Epidemiology is oriented to professionals who work in the health area. The candidates for both programs must have completed an undergraduate degree from a national or international university. Also they should demonstrate basic knowledge of English, enough to read comprehensive scientific literature.


Modality

This program is defined as where the student should assist an intensive three day session once a month, participating in programmed sessions and working in tutorials with direct supervision. The rest of the time, the student continues with the learning process at the respective original places, with long distance supervision using internet (Email and discussion sites).


Study Program

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The general objective of this course is to give basic tools to identify and analyze relevant problems present in their professional practice, we expect from our student to develop skills using the evidences around the health problems, designing and implementing a research.

This Program is for Post-Graduated medicine students, professors or for health professional. It is dictated every semester and the participants have the choice to enroll all the courses of the program or only those of their interest.

1. Module I: Basic Element of Clinical Epidemiology for Health Decision Taking.
2. Module II: Critical Appraisal to Medical Literature.
3. Module III: Research Design.
4. Module IV: Introduction to Health Social Sciences.
5. Module V: Health Management.
6. Workshop of Research.

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General Objectives:

To train professionals with relevant experience in applied statistics in health science. The candidate for this program must have a basic knowledge in statistics and mathematics or in related fields. The principal objective of this program is to produce Biostatisticians with high levels of training, consulting, teaching in statistics and research in the health area. We expect that our graduate students work as Biostatisticians as part of a multi-disciplinary research team for health science, work teaching Biostatistics in pre/post graduate courses and to conduct methodological research in biostatistics as a collaborator for statisticians with more expertise.

In Latin America, there are many necessities of research in health, not only at the academic level, but also at the level of the public health providers .

Currently, there is a great amount of data generated in health area without being analyzed. This program tried to satisfy the necessity of professional statisticians well trained in the health area to fill the necessity of data analysis in a local, national, and in Latino American region.


Program Description:

This program is designed to be completed in two stages. The first stage includes courses and a proposal thesis. The second stage consists of the accomplishment of the thesis.

After finishing all the requirements of the first stage, the student becomes "Graduated In Biostatistics". The accomplishment of the thesis should be done within three years (university rule) and it is not required that the student is present while working on her/his thesis. After finishing and defending with the thesis successfully, the student is awarded the grade of "Masters in Statistics Applied to Health Science".

At the fist stage, the student has a list of optional and non-optional courses distributed in three modules for three months for each module plus one summer session. The courses take four principle areas. "Statistics", " Supporting Program for Health Sciences", "Supporting Program in Mathematics, Theoretic Statistical and Statistical Software" and " Thesis Proposal ".


Potential Students and Selection Requirement

This Program intends to supply the necessity of applying a statistician to work in the Human Sciences area in Chile and Latin America. Currently, this Program covers the necessity of applying statisticians for the Health Sciences at the government, industrial and academic areas.

The candidates have to be:

• Graduates from a known institution.
• Ideally, with less than one year of experience in the Health Science area.

The candidates can be:

• Statisticians, applied mathematicians or biometricians
• Epidemiologists with experience in applied statistics or research.
• Other professionals with experience in statistics and research.

Graduation Requirements

To obtain the "Graduation in Applied Statistic in Health Sciences", the following requirements must be accomplished:

• Pass all the required courses (minimum grade 5.0, scale 1 to 7)
• To have written and defended the thesis proposal successfully

To get the degree of "Masters in Applied Statistics in Health Sciences", in addition to the graduation requirements, the candidate must have:

• Written and defended his/her thesis.

Teaching Methods and Evaluation

The classes will be tutorial, with previous reading of selected articles or chapters of the reference books. The topics will be discussed in small groups. Depending on the content, the methodology of problems solutions will be used.

The students will be evaluated by the responsible professor of each course using two exams. The first evaluation, in the middle of each course, will be written and the final exam will be given in two parts, in-class and homework assignments. Also, daily work will be periodically evaluated. The professors of the course will be evaluated by the students by a questionnaire at the end of the modules and the course. These evaluations will be conducted anonymously.

Coordinator
Dr. Pedro Lorca, E-mail: plorca@ufro.cl