Korea has adopted Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) officers through the Field Epidemiology Training Program (FETP) since 1999 for systematic control of emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases. Graduates of medical schools in Korea are selected and serve as public health doctors (PHDs) for their mandatory military service. The duration of service is 3 years and PHDs comprise general prac...

The Department of Public Health and Social Medicine at the Shaheed Beheshti Univer­sity of Medical Sciences is a new division of the medical faculty which began less than a decade ago. Since its inspection it has expanded into a department with num­bers of faculty member specialized in the field of public Health and preventive medicine. The program which is being developed with the assistance o...

A field epidemiology manual (FEM) training resource, the FEM wiki project, has been developed to support the European Programme for Intervention Epidemiology Training (EPIET) and to serve as resource for any training in intervention epidemiology. The project (www. femwiki.com) is the result of a collaboration between a team of experts from the City ehealth Research Centre (CeRC) of the School o...

The PhD program in Epidemiology and Translational Science is housed in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics (DEB) at the UCSF School of Medicine, offered in collaboration with UCSF?s renowned Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute [1]. Doctoral students receive high caliber training in core skills of epidemiologic and biostatistical methods along with practical ?research rota...

conclusions schistosomiasis is one of the major tropical and communicable diseases in the eastern mediterranean region (emr). however, today it is eliminated in iran by schistosomiasis control practices. results on the basis of our results, using a national program for schistosomiasis control based on active and passive case finding, snail control programs, education of people, conducting train...

introduction: many studies have focused on the need of health systems to educated physicians in the clinical prevention, research methodology, epidemiology and health care management and emphasize the important role of this training in the public health promotion. on this basis, shiraz university of medical sciences (sums) has established md/mph dual degree program since the year 2012. methods:...

The Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) has served the United States and the world for >58 years by being an extraordinary apprenticeship in the fundamentals of practical field epidemiology: a training program, a professional entry point, the basis for lifelong careers, and a closely supervised and mentored opportunity for research, analysis, and community service. Epidemic-assistance investiga...