Oral presentation: Each student will prepare a 12-minute presentation comparing the local epidemiology of a specific infectious disease to that of Florida and the United States. Presentation dates and topics will be assigned at the first in-person class.
The presentation should focus on epidemiology and not on clinical issues such as diagnosis and treatment. One to two slides should cover the basic description of the disease, three-five slides control measures, and the rest on the epidemiology of the disease in Miami-Dade County with a comparison to the United States and Florida. For some diseases, data may not be available to allow a comparison to Florida and the United States by demographic variables. However, there must be at a minimum comparison of the incidence rates for at least one year. In addition to government web sites, the student should use search engines such as PubMed to identify pertinent peer-reviewed articles for the background information. References should be listed on the last slide. If there are special reporting forms for your disease, please bring a copy for classmates. Include the case definition on one of your slides. There are 100 potential points for the presentation. The matrix that will be used to grade the presentation is on Canvas. The presentations will be timed, and students will be stopped at 12 minutes, so it is imperative that the presentation be timed prior to the delivery date and well-rehearsed. The students are encouraged to meet with the instructor at least a month prior to the presentation date to discuss sources of data that the student has found.The topic to be covered is perinatal hepatitis B.
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