Dear Epi 218 Students,
Welcome to the forum for Epi 218 -- Data Collection and Management for Clinical Research!
Post your questions here. It's a great resource.
The Epi 218 course material is covered in the lecture videos and the documents posted to the syllabus. The 6 course assignments have complete, detailed instructions. They have been tested and debugged over the years, but we do make changes. They require doing an online quiz and/or uploading a file to the CLE syllabus site.
The lab sessions at 8:30 am and 6 pm on Thursdays do not include any formal didactics or new material. Attendance is optional. However, most students like to work through the assignments in the lab sessions so they can get help from the TAs and fellow students.
Again, attendance at the lab sessions is completely optional. Although it's fine to attend both, we envisioned people attending one or the other, either the 8:30 am or the 6 pm lab. Only the 8:30 am lab will be available in-person.
In addition to completing the 6 assignments on time, you will turn in a final project consisting of a data collection system that you have developed yourself and a data collection and management plan.
Best,
Michael (for your course faculty -- Michael Kohn and Josh Senyak)