EPIB 634. Fundamentals of Pharmacoepidemiology.

The objective of this course is for students to develop an understanding of the design and analysis of pharmacoepidiologic studies. It includes didactic lectures, group discussions, and the examination of examples from the medical literature. Topics covered including an overview of commonly used study designs, exposure and outcome assessment, new-user designs, healthy-user effects, non-traditional study designs, and the role of confounding and methods used to minimize it. Biases particularly relevant to pharmacoepidemiology are also discussed.