By Samachar Digital News
Chandigarh 04th Jan,
2020:- The third national level workshop on Advanced
Epidemiology & Biostatistics was organized by Department of Community
Medicine & School of Public Health, PGIMER, Chandigarh from 23rd December,
2019 to 04th January, 2020. The objective of the workshop was
to enable the participants draw appropriate inferences from epidemiologic data
and evaluate the strengths and limitations of epidemiologic reports. The
participants were given a thorough grounding both in classical methods of
analysis and in the more advanced regression techniques. Moreover, participants
gained practical experience of data analysis using the computer package
Stata. Twenty-One participants
of various medical colleges and national level health programs from 12 states
of India attended the workshop and participated actively throughout its course.
The resource persons from Department of community
Medicine & School of Public Health, PGIMER, Chandigarh were Dr. Rajesh Kumar (Ex-Professor &
Head); Dr. P.V.M.Lakshmi (Professor); Dr Shankar Prinja (Additional
Professor); Dr. Ravindra Khaiwal (Additional Professor); Dr. Tarundeep Singh
(Associate Professor) and Dr. Kapil Goel (Assisitant Professor).
After going through the scientifically designed
study material and practice exercises the participants felt confident about the
skills they had gained and looked forward to disseminate the lessons hence
learnt. On 04th January, 2020 with concluding remarks
from Dr. PVM Lakshmi and
presentation of certificates to the participants the two-week-workshop
successfully came to an end.
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