This document provides information on the basic medical statistics course for the Master of Community Health Sciences (Executive) program in 2012/2013. The course will cover topics in descriptive and inferential statistics including data collection, analysis, presentation, hypothesis testing, and the use of statistical software like SPSS. Students will learn how to summarize quantitative and qualitative data, understand statistical distributions and concepts, and perform basic statistical analyses and data interpretation. The course will be taught through lectures, tutorials, assignments, and involve practical exercises and evaluations like mini-tests and a final exam.