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EPIET
Programme
CDSC (NI) is one of the host institutes for the European Programme for Intervention Epidemiology Training (EPIET). The programme is funded by the European Commission, various EU member states as well as Norway. The EPIET programme is designed to establish a network of individuals with expertise in communicable disease epidemiology. The in-service training includes outbreak investigations, disease surveillance, applied research, and communications with decision makers, the media, the public and the scientific community.
Training Fellowships for Intervention Epidemiology in Europe
The ECDC plan to recruit for the 14th cohort of fellows in the European Programme for Intervention Epidemiology Training (EPIET), starting in September 2008. The aim of the EPIET training is to enable the fellow to assume service responsibilities in communicable disease epidemiology. Fellows will attend a three-week intensive introductory course and then be located in a host institiute in one of the participating training sites in EU Member States and Norway.
Detailed information about the EPIET programme can be obtained from the EPIET programme website at www.epiet.org
Vacancy notice for application can be found on the website for European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control at http://ecdc.europa.eu/Recruitment.html
Postgraduate Medical Education
CDSC (NI) is recognised by the Faculty of Public Health Medicine as a training location for public health doctors wishing to gain experience in communicable disease epidemiology.
Undergraduate Education
CDSC (NI) also has close links with the School of Medicine, Queen's University Belfast and offers placements to students undertaking special study modules.
Other Training Opportunities
CDSC (NI) regularly participates in medical and nursing undergraduate and postgraduate education. The unit also participates in multi-agency and multi-disciplinary cross border communicable disease training with other agencies including the Food Standards Agency (FSA), National Disease Surveillance Centre and the Food Safety Promotion Board.
Last Updated: 21/12/2007
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