INTRODUCTORY COURSE
Field Epidemiology Training Program
Tokyo, Japan, 01-28 April 2004
Updated on Mar 29
Contact to;
Dr. Ohyama, FETP coordinator
fetp@nih.go.jp
week Day Time Topics Facilitators
1 4/1
Thu
afternoon *Introduction 1400-1430@*FETP 6th Cohort only
*Administrative Remarks 1430-1500 *FETP 6th Cohort only
Inaugural Ceremony 1500-1530
@*FETP 6th Cohort only
*
Lecture:Field Epidemiology and FETP 1600-1630
*Lecture:Core activities and requirements 1630-1700



Kobayashi(NIID)
Ohyama
(NIID)
4/2
Fri
morning *Lecture:Rates, ratios, and proportions 1000-1100
*Lecture:Principles of outbreak investigation 1100-1200
Ohyama(NIID)
Kobayashi(NIID)
afternoon *Lecture:Disease transmission and control 1330-1430
*Exercise:Disease transmission and control 1500-1700
Sunagawa(NIID)
Sunagawa(NIID)
2 4/5
Mon
morning *Lecture:Managing information and the media during an outbreak 1100-1200
*Lecture:Descriptive epidemiology 1000-1100
Kobayashi(NIID)

Dicker(CDC,USA)
afternoon *Bio-safety Seminar for new comers 1330-1600 *FETP 6th Cohort only -
4/6
Tue
morning *Lecture:Water-borne disease 1000-1100
*Lecture:Measure of association 1100-1200
Kobayashi(NIID)
Dicker(CDC,USA)
afternoon *Exercise:A Meningitis out break 1330-1700 Sunagawa(NIID)
4/7
Wed
morning *Lecture:Study Design 1000-1100                               
*Lecture:Laws & Legulations (infectious disease) 1100-1200
Dicker(CDC, USA)
(MHLW)
afternoon *Lecture: Nosocomial Infetction 1300-1400
*Exercise:Cigarette smorking and lung cancer 1330-1700
Morikane (NIID)
Dicker(CDC, USA)
4/8
Thu
morning *Lecture:Surveillance system in Japan 1000-1100
*Lecture:Confounding 1100-1200
Kimura(NIID)
Dicker(CDC, USA)
afternoon *Exercise:"Alcohol"......confounding? 1330-1700 Dicker(CDC,USA)
4/9
Fri
morning *Lecture:Differential diagnosis of food-borne disease 1000-1100
*Lecture:Principles of disease surveillance 1100-1200
Kobayashi(NIID)
Dicker(CDC, USA)
afternoon *Exercise:Surveillance system design 1330-1700 Dicker(CDC,USA)
3 4/12
Mon
morning *Lecture:Food-borne disease 1000-1100
*Lecture:Avian Influenza 1100-1200
Kobayashi(NIID)
Piyanit(EPI, Thailand)
afternoon *Exercise:An outbreak of gastrointestial illness following a church supper 1330-1700 Dicker(CDC, USA)
4/13
Tue
morning *Lecture:Parasitic diseases 1000-1100
*Lecture:Laws & Regulations (food safety) 1100-1200
Endo(NIID)
(MHLW)
afternoon *Exercise:Multi-site outbreak of E.coli / O157 1330-1700 Kobayashi(NIID)
4/14
Wed
morning *Lecture:Choice of comparison groups 1000-1100
*Lecture:Laws & Regulations (quarantine) 1100-1200
Piyanit(EPI, Thailand)
Kamakura(MHLW)
afternoon *Exercise:Tampons and Toxic Shock Syndrome 1330-1700 Piyanit(EPI, Thailand)
4/15
Thu
morning *Lecture:Bias and causality 1000-1100
*Lecture:Laws & Regulatinos (school health) 1100-1200
Dicker(CDC,USA)
Ohtake(MEXT)
afternoon *Exercise:TB prevention and control in Japan 1330-1500
*Lecture:SARS 1500-
Yanai(JATA)
Piyanit(EPI, Thailand)
4/16
Fri
morning *Lecture:Matching 1000-1100
*Lecture:Introduction of mini-project 1100-1200
Piyanit(EPI, Thailand)
Nakashima&Sunagawa(NIID)
afternoon *Lecture:Viral diseases (vector-borne) 1330-1500
*Excercise:Mini-Project 1500-1700
kurane(NIID)
Nakashima&Sunagawa(NIID)
4 4/19
Mon
morning *Lecture:EPI in Thailand 1000-1100
*Lecture:Zoonosis 1100-1200
Piyanit(EPI, Thailand)
Yamada(NIID)
afternoon *Exercise:Nosocomial Staphylococcus aureus outbreak 1330-1700 Piyanit(EPI, Thailand)
4/20
Tue
morning *Excercise:Assessment of surveillance system 1000-1100
*Lecture:
Nakashima(NIID)
afternoon *Exercise:Measles in a divided city - Taxarkana 1330-1700 Piyanit(EPI, Thailand)
4/21
Wed
morning *Lecture:Viral diseases (measles etc.)0900-1000
*Lecture:Viral diseases (polio etc.)1100-1200
Tashiro(NIID)
Miyamura(NIID)
afternoon Exercise:An epidemic disease in South Carolina 1330-1700 Sunagawa(NIID)
4/22
Thu
morning *Lecture:Sensitivity & Specificity 1000-1100
*Lecture:Laws & Regulations (nosocomial infection) 1100-1200
Nakashima(NIID)
Kurono(NHLW)
afternoon *Exercise:Mini-projext 1330-1700 Nakashima&Sunagawa(NIID)
4/23
Fri
morning *Exercise:Questionnaire design 1000-1100
*Lecture:Bacterial disease(EHEC etc.)
1100-1200
Sunagawa(NIID)
Watanabe(NIID) 
afternoon *Lecture:Bacterial disease(VRE, MRSA, etc.) 1330-1500
*Exercise:Mini-project 1500-1700
Arakawa(NIID) 
Nakashima&Sunagawa(NIID)
5 4/26
Mon
morning *Lecture:Measure of impact 1000-1100
*Lecture:Basic statistics 1100-1200
Nakashima(NIID)
Okusa(NIID)
afternoon *Lecture:OC applications for FETP 1330-1500
*Lecture:Immunization policy 1500-1600
Sunagawa(NIID)
Tanaka(NIID)
4/27
Tue
morning *Lecture:Vaccines 1000-1100
*Lecture:Risk assessment for food-borne diseases 1100-1200
Inouye(NIID)
Kasuga(NIHS)
afternoon *Exercise:Mini-project 1330-1700 Nakashima&Sunagawa(NIID)
4/28
Wed
morning *Lecture:After 2 years FETP... ... ? 1000-1200 FETP alumni
afternoon *Exercise:Presentation of Mini-projext 1330-1500
Closing Ceremony