Jroundi Imane, Belarbi Abdellatif
Tunis Med. 2016 Nov;94(11):658.
Morocco in 2010 launched a new field epidemiology training program to enhance the skills of health professionals in charge of epidemiological surveillance and to investigate outbreaks; including foodborne diseases that represent a very substantial burden of disease.
To apply an active learning method to teach outbreak investigation within a controled environment for field epidemiology trainees program at the Moroccan National school of public Health.
A scenario describing digestive symptoms evoking a restaurant-associated foodborne outbreak that would affect the school staff was designed for the residents to investigate, to assess their organizational capacity and application of all stages of epidemiological investigation.
Nine Residents applied study design, database management and statistical analysis to investigate the foodborne outbreak, to estimate attack rates, classify cases and controls, to identify the contaminated foods and pathogens and to issue preventive recommendations for the control and the prevention of further transmission. The overall resident's satisfaction of the learning method was 67%.
A simulation of an outbreak investigation within an academic setting is an active learning method to be used in the curriculum for introducing the residents on field epidemiology program to the principles and practices of outbreak investigation before their implication in a real situation.
2010年，摩洛哥启动了一项新的现场流行病学培训计划，以提高负责流行病学监测的卫生专业人员的技能，并调查疫情爆发情况；其中包括食源性疾病，这类疾病构成了非常严重的疾病负担。
在摩洛哥国家公共卫生学院的现场流行病学培训学员计划的可控环境中，应用一种主动学习方法来教授疫情调查。
设计了一个情景，描述引发与餐厅相关的食源性疫情爆发的消化症状，该疫情将影响学校工作人员，让学员进行调查，以评估他们的组织能力以及流行病学调查各阶段的应用情况。
九名学员运用研究设计、数据库管理和统计分析来调查食源性疫情爆发，估计发病率，对病例和对照进行分类，识别受污染的食物和病原体，并发布控制和预防进一步传播的预防性建议。学员对学习方法的总体满意度为67%。
在学术环境中模拟疫情调查是一种主动学习方法，可用于课程中，让现场流行病学培训计划的学员在实际参与真实情况之前，了解疫情调查的原则和实践。
