临床流行病学在中医科研教学中的思考

Thinking of Clinical Epidemiology in Scientific Research Teaching of Traditional Chinese Medicine

临床流行病学是在临床医学研究中,以患者群体为研究对象,应用流行病学原理和方法,观察、分析和解释临床医学中的诊断、筛检、治疗、预后以及病因等医学研究中所遇到的问题,为临床决策提供科学依据的一门方法学。其核心内容是临床科研的设计、测量与评价。临床流行病学的教学可以为临床研究提供科学的研究方法,进而在现代医学模式下培养高质量的临床医生。因此,拟探讨临床流行病学教学的方法,以提高临床流行病学在中医科研教学中的教学水平和中医临床医生的科研、诊疗水平。

Clinical epidemiology concerns with the application ofepidemiological principles and methods in specifed populations to observe,analyze and explain issues in clinical medicine such as diagnosis, screening,treatment, prognosis as well as the cause of disease with the aim ofproviding scientifc evidence for clinical decision making. The core contentsof clinical epidemiology are design, measurement and evaluation inclinical research. Clinical epidemiology can provide scientifc theories andprinciples for clinical research, and help train high quality clinicians underthe modern model of medicine. Therefore, this paper intends to explorethe method of clinical epidemiology teaching to improve the teachinglevel of clinical epidemiology and the scientifc research and diagnosis andtreatment level of traditional Chinese medicine doctors.