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There are a couple of questions on the 2007 C national event that relate to matched case-control studies. Have any of you encountered the matched case-control design in any other events?

I haven't seen matched case-control studies in other events but i did study them. Here is a website detailing matched case-control studies ( its really confusing at first and takes a lot of time to understand): http://staff.pubhealth.ku.dk/~bxc/SPE.2 ... es/mcc.pdf

so confused...
this seems like a hard event, yet i can hardly find any info to put on my notesheet.
some people are saying that you don't need one, but i find that confusing
can someone please help me on the info i need to know? i have the definitions, causes and all that, but im undecided on one thing
the 10 steps to an outbreaK investigation
should i keep that in my notes? cause it takes up a page and a half...
thanks for the help! (ive only beed doing scioly for 2 years)

sciolystudy wrote:so confused...
this seems like a hard event, yet i can hardly find any info to put on my notesheet.
some people are saying that you don't need one, but i find that confusing
can someone please help me on the info i need to know? i have the definitions, causes and all that, but im undecided on one thing
the 10 steps to an outbreaK investigation
should i keep that in my notes? cause it takes up a page and a half...
thanks for the help! (ive only beed doing scioly for 2 years)

First of all, there is no such thing as a hard event, every test event will be hard if you go in unprepared and will be easy if you have studied well. You should definitely bring a note sheet, you're allowed to bring one and bringing one will do you no harm. 10 steps to outbreak investigation will be on 90% of the tests you take, so you can either memorize it or put it on your notesheet. Also, if you are unsure on what to study, start with the wiki.

I'm new to disease detectives this year... how should i start studying for this? are there any good resources with the basics?

In my experience, the training handout on the Disease Detectives page on the Soinc website is very comprehensive on what is on the event. Study from that and you have most of the event covered. You might also want to check the Disease Detectives Wiki for similar information.

EASTstroudsburg13 wrote:In my experience, the training handout on the Disease Detectives page on the Soinc website is very comprehensive on what is on the event. Study from that and you have most of the event covered. You might also want to check the Disease Detectives Wiki for similar information.

Yeah, that tends to cover a lot of it. If you can get practice tests, or if your school goes to invitationals, do it. It was hard for me to understand how the tests would work before I had taken a few tests.

But for the material, the stuff EAST mentioned covers a good majority of it. Everything else is more reasoning skills, which is hard to teach.

ok... thanks. we don't really have a coach for this event yet, so most of it will have to be self study. :/ hopefully it works out...

sciencenerd13 wrote:ok... thanks. we don't really have a coach for this event yet, so most of it will have to be self study. :/ hopefully it works out...

Don't worry about it. At BCMS, we never really have any people to "teach" students about events. It's totally self study. And we still did pretty well last year!

sciencenerd13 wrote:ok... thanks. we don't really have a coach for this event yet, so most of it will have to be self study. :/ hopefully it works out...

Yeah, that always sucks. I find a coach less useful in this type of event than they would be in say, Anatomy. Though that may be just me, I need somebody else to help me memorize stuff, but I can learn concepts and processes with relative ease.