List of questions
1. Biostatistics as an applied science. Its place in the system of evidence-based medicine.
2. Statistical study. Stages.
3. Methods of statistical observation and data collection. Sources of statistical information.
4. Statistical totality (Population, sample). Sample studies design.
5. Randomization and stratification. Design of clinical studies.
6. Grouping of statistical data: types and methods.
7. Statistical tables. Kinds, practical use and analysis.
8. Statistical values and parameters.
9. Relative values: kinds, methods of calculation, practical use.
10. Graphic methods of data analysis. Kinds of graphics, order of design. Practical use in medicine and
Public Health.
11. Risk factors. Measure of risk: calculation and analysis. Absolute risk, Relative risk (Risk ratio).
12. Attributable risk, Attributable population risk. Odds ratio. Practical use.
13. Avarege values: kinds, calculation, practical use.
14. Variation. Variation set: types, stages of design.
15. Measures of dispersion: range, standard deviation (у), coefficient of variation (Cv). Calculation and
analysis.
16. Measure of variation. Conception of spreading law (rule of 3 у).
17. Hypothesis testing. Null hypothesis (Ho) and Alternate hypothesis (Ha).
18. Types of Errors: Type I (Alpha) and Type II (Beta). Significance of statistical criteria.
19. Parametric methods of reliability estimation of sample study. Reliability tests (standard error of the
mean and relative value, confidence limits).
20. Estimation of reliability of difference: Student` t Test. Calculation and analysis.
21. Non-parametric tests (criterion of signs, by Wilcockson, by Colmogorov-Smirnov, by Pierson).
22. Correlation. Correlation coefficients (rank, linear).
23. Regression analysis. Coefficient of regression.
24. Dynamic (time) sets. Kinds, parameters, analysis.
25. Standardization: types, characteristics, practical use.
26. Evidence-based medicine: definition.
27. Main principals of evidence-based medicine.
28. Randomization and stratification in statistical studies: essence.
29. Errors in epidemiological studies: definition, occurrence.
30. Random error: definition, exposure.
31. Systematic error: types, contrast to random error.
32. Methods of systematic errors elimination.
33. Meta-analysis in epidemiology.
34. Cochrane collaboration: basic tasks and principals. Systematic review.
35. Biostatistics as a science: tasks, practical use.
36. Epidemiology as a science: aim, basic principals.
37. Clinical epidemiology: aim, tasks, basic principals.
38. Classification of epidemiological studies: by nature of the intervention, by tasks, by design, by
time of observation.
39. Empirical study: definition, types, practical use.
40. Descriptive epidemiology: case-report, case-series.
41. Cross-sectional (prevalence) study: aim practical use.
42. Analytic epidemiology: cohort study, case-control study, ecological study.
43. Longitudinal study: aim, practical use.
44. Retrospective and prospective studies. Practical use.
45. Experimental studies: definition, types, tasks.
46. Control and non-control studies.
47. Randomized studies: definition, aims.
48. Screening in epidemiological studies: aim, requirements.
49. Screening tests. Criteria (sensitivity, specificity).
50. Statistical parameters in epidemiological studies: incidence, prevalence.
51. Individual Health and Public Health, Definitions. Determinants of Health.
52. City policlinic. Structure/ Tasks. Functions of district phisician.
53. Medical establishmetts and kinds of medical-preventive help to urban population.
54. Gerontology, Geriatrics and Social Gerontology Definitions. Classifications of population in
accordance to old age people amount.
55. Incorporated city hospital: structure, functions, indices.
56. Obligatory and voluntary medical insuranse, their peculiarities.
57. Peculiarities of medical aid of rural populayion/ Stages of medical aid.
58. Demography, definition. Indices of natural movement of population.
59. Demography,definitions. Types of medical aid to rural populatiom. Regional hospital structure,
main tasks and functions.
60. 3th stage of medical aid to rural population. Regional Hospital: structure, main tasks and functions.
61. Infant mortality (structure, types by WHO). Methods of calculation.
62. Central Regional Hospital. Main tasks and functions.
63. Infant mortality as a medical problem. Calculation of new-born and perinatal mortality.
64. 1st stage of medical aid to rural population. Rural medical division, structure, functions.
65. Structure of population bt age, types. World problems of aging.
66. Organization of Emergency aid. Esteblishments.
67. Emergency aid stations and hospitals. Main tasks and functions.
68. Natural growth (change). Reproduction of population. General and special demographic indices.
69. Types of Morbidity. Main indicators.
70. Primary Health Care, definition, main principles.
71. Morbidity. Methods of study.
72. Dispensery method, definition, purpose, groups and criteria of effectiveness.
73. Social medical aspects of main non epidemical diseases and traumas.
74. City polyclinic, definition, forms and time-table of district physician`s work. Indices of activity and
documents in polyclinic.
75. Tuberculosis and respiratory system diseases as a social medical problem.
76. Family medicine. Tasks, functions, peculiarities of family doctor`s work.
77. General morbidity. Sources of study, statistic documents, indices.
78. Prophylaxis. Types of medical examination.
79. Traumatism as a social medical problem.
80. Prophylaxis. Types of medical examination.
81. Infectious and non-epidemical morbidity observation unit, statistic documents, main indices.
82. Public helth systems. Their peculiarities.
83. Primary medico-sanitary help (PMSH). Determination. Principles.
84. Practical skills of doctor of medical first-aid.
85. Gerontology, geriatrics, social gerontology (determinations). Chronologic periods of senescene.
WHO classification.
86. Diseases of breathing organs, as medical – social problem.
87. Description of morbidity of senior age population.
88. Diseases of organs of circulation of blood, as medical – social problem.
89. System of medicare to the agien population.
90. Traumatism as medical – social problem.
91. Estimation of the state of elderty people, its pecularitic.
92. Tuberculosis as medical – social problem.