ILOs:
- Define screening
- Give specific examples of screening programmes currently provided in Scotland
- Describe the criteria for implementation of a screening programme
- Understand and calculate basic statistical measures related to screening tests: sensitivity, specificity, positive/negative predictive value
- Discuss the benefits, risks, and limitations of screening programmes
- Describe the process of screening.
- What are some Key points you need to know about screening?
- Why is it important to know the natural history of disease?
- What are the harms of screening?
- What is the purpose of a screening test?
- What are False and true positives and negatives?
- What is a False positive rate and what does it tell us?
- What is a False negative rate and what does it tell us?
- What are Positive and negative predicted values?
- What is Sensitivity?
- What is Specificity?