BST 600 covers basic statistical methods that are commonly encountered in health-related research. Major topics include descriptive statistics, estimation and hypothesis testing for means and proportions, correlation, and regression, with a special focus on the computation and interpretation of these methods for analyzing health data.
BST 664 covers the fundamental concepts used in the design of clinical and translational trials with an introduction to statistical methodology associated with trial data analysis.
BST 675 covers the fundamentals of probability and inference through simulation. Topics are focused on methodology used in health data science and include, but are not limited to, random variables, independence, discrete and continuous distributions, confidence intervals, hypothesis testing, and efficient estimators.
BST 681, the first in a two-semester sequence in regression modeling, covers linear regression models for normally distributed outcomes. The course will cover simple and multiple linear regression, estimation, interpretation, hypothesis testing, model building and diagnostics, matrix algebra for regression, and an introduction to design of experiments. The course will include the use of computing tools to apply these models to real data.
BST 693 provides an introduction to team science for biostatisticians working in public health or biomedical research. In this course, students learn how to use written and oral communication to effectively collaborate with other scientists. Topics include methods for skillful communication practices to incorporate domain knowledge into an appropriate statistical analysis plan, programming for reproducibility and data ethics, utilizing statistical methodology for problem solving, and presenting and interpreting statistical results effectively for a variety of audiences.
This course aims to orient the student to the place health and health professions play in modern cultures. Recognition of their own social assumptions and values and those of persons of different backgrounds is encouraged. Understanding, predicting, and changing dental patient behavior from a social standpoint is emphasized.
Fundamentals of Dental Public Health is a first-year course designed to introduce student dentists to the dental specialty of Dental Public Health, to dental epidemiological concepts, terminology, and methods used in population-based health care. Community oral health problems in Kentucky and the United States will be reviewed. Emphasis will be placed on public health research, programming, and outcome evaluation strategies related to oral disease in populations.
Students are provided a full-time, off-campus assignment to a dental practice environment for a period of 4-8 weeks. Students spend an average of 32 hours each week participating in practice management and patient treatment activities under the supervision of a dentist. Approximately eight hours a week are spent in career plan development and in study of the community or region, particularly its health care delivery system and the role of dentistry in that system.
This course is primarily designed to give the student dentists, prior to graduation, practical, useful knowledge on establishing and maintaining a private dental practice. The course will be presented in an active learning format. Course sessions and activities will also include special sessions designed to introduce students to the current environment of dental practice, to organized dentistry in Kentucky, to the College's Alumni Association and to new developments and continuing education in the dental profession. Lecture 69 hours.
This course is designed to provide student dentists an experiential learning experience in a research program, clinical program, public health program and/or institutional dental program. Career planning and service-learning are emphasized and coordinated with placement in a community-based site. Students learn by active participation in patient care and/or research, by observation and by discussion with mentors. Discussions and interviews with patients and dental residents and staff are also encouraged.
