Epidemiologist
Code 2131.4.7
Epidemiologists centre their research on origin and causes for illness eruption in humans. They determine the way in which diseases are spread out and propose risk preventive measures to health policy organisms.
Essential skills
Knowledge
- Colaboración interprofesional en un entorno médico
- Criterios de diagnóstico
- Estándar de comunicación de datos en salud Health Level 7
- Evaluación clínica y diagnóstico preciso en pacientes
- Evaluación y tratamiento de afecciones médicas
- biometrics
- communicable diseases
- epidemiology
- statistics
- project management
- preventive medicine
- scientific research methodology
- public health
- Ética en la toma de decisiones clínicas
Skills and competences
- Colaboración con proveedores de atención médica
- Comprender consideraciones culturales en atención médica
- Comunicar los riesgos a todas las personas implicadas
- Elaborar informes técnicos para audiencias de salud
- Elaborar presentaciones para audiencias de salud
- speak different languages
- interact professionally in research and professional environments
- Interpretar información clínica ambigua
- Manejar terminología técnica en salud
- take disease prevention measures
- apply research ethics and scientific integrity principles in research activities
- apply scientific methods
- communicate with a non-scientific audience
- develop professional network with researchers and scientists
- demonstrate disciplinary expertise
- operate open source software
- disseminate results to the scientific community
- write scientific publications
- evaluate research activities
- manage research data
- manage findable accessible interoperable and reusable data
- manage open publications
- integrate gender dimension in research
- perform scientific research
- conduct research across disciplines
- think abstractly
- mentor individuals
- prevent communicable diseases' outbreaks
- promote open innovation in research
- promote the transfer of knowledge
- publish academic research
- gather experimental data
- draft scientific or academic papers and technical documentation
- apply for research funding
Transversal competences
- apply statistical analysis techniques
- increase the impact of science on policy and society
- manage intellectual property rights
- manage personal professional development
- perform project management
- report analysis results
- think analytically
- promote the participation of citizens in scientific and research activities
- synthesise information
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