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Courses and Training

The Menzies Research Institute offers several training opportunities to researchers, health professionals, students and the general community.

Institute Seminars

Seminars are held in the Keith Millingen Lecture Theatre at the Clinical School in Collins Street, Hobart, 9.00am - 10am on Thursdays. The next 5 scheduled seminars are listed below

26 NovLeigh BlizzardFor student supervisors: Requirements for Confirmation of Candidature of PhD students enrolled after 1 January 2009
03 DecNo Seminar - Moving building
10 DecOliver Stannus / Jessica Minghui ChenNovel quantifiers of osteoarthritis using MRI / Deciphering the mechanism of glutamate receptors-induced neuronal death in cultured murine cortical neurons
17 DecProbably no seminar

For further information on Institute Seminars, contact:

Dr Ingrid van der Mei
Senior Research Fellow
Telephone: (03) 6226 7710

 

Introduction to Epidemiology

This 2-day course is offered to Menzies Research Institute staff and undergraduate medical students from the University of Tasmania. Other persons with a genuine and demonstrated interest in epidemiology may also be eligible to attend. The course is taught by epidemiologists from the Institute.

Typical Course Outline:

Day 1
Study design options
The framework of a study

Day 2
Rates and ratios
BiasCausal inference
Critical appraisal of the literature

Advanced Epidemiology Course

This course is offered to Menzies Research Institute staff and health professionals. Other persons with a genuine and demonstrated interest in epidemiology may also be eligible to attend.

The aims of this course are to provide researchers with the skills required to critically interpret the reported results of epidemiological studies and design, implement and analyse such studies.

The next course will begin on a date yet to be determined.

For further information on the above Epidemiology courses please contact:

Sue Pearson
Lecturer/Research Fellow
Telephone: (03) 6226 4712

 

 

 

 
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