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PU5026: EPIDEMIOLOGY (2015-2016)

Last modified: 25 Mar 2016 11:38


Course Overview

Epidemiology will allow students to develop a critical understanding of the strengths and limitations of an epidemiological approach to studying health and disease in a population. The course covers aspects of study design, measures of disease occurrence, causality, bias, confounding, odds ratios and relative risks as well as validity & reliability.

Course Details

Study Type Postgraduate Level 5
Term First Term Credit Points 15 credits (7.5 ECTS credits)
Campus Foresterhill Sustained Study No
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Qualification Prerequisites

None.

What courses & programmes must have been taken before this course?

  • Any Postgraduate Programme (Studied)
  • Any Postgraduate Programme Certificate in Research Methods for Health (Studied)

What other courses must be taken with this course?

None.

What courses cannot be taken with this course?

None.

Are there a limited number of places available?

No

Course Description

Introduction including a brief history and definition of epidemiology. The use of routine data to monitor patterns of morality and morbidity in populations. Measure disease occurrence including prevalence, incidence, crude and standardised rates/ratios. A brief overview of study design. The concept of risk and relative/absolute measures of effect. A brief overview of the role of chance including precision and hypothesis testing. The concepts of bias, confounding, reliability, internal/external validity and causality relating to epidemiological research. The common epidemiological study designs: case series; correlational and cross-sectional studies; cohort studies; case control studies. The critical appraisal of epidemiological studies, Screening criteria and related concepts.

Contact Teaching Time

Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.

Teaching Breakdown

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Details, including assessments, may be subject to change until 30 August 2024 for 1st term courses and 20 December 2024 for 2nd term courses.

Summative Assessments

Summative assessment on the epidemiology course will involve individual students completing 5 marked elements:
1) MCQ examination (1 hour) at the end of 'week 3' (15% of the final mark).
2) Epidemiological numerical calculations (2 hours) at the end of 'week 5' (20% of the final mark)
3) Production of an epidemiological conference abstract during 'week 8' (20% tutor and 5% peer marks allocated to final mark).
4) MCQ examination (time-limited to 1 hour) at the end of 'week 10' (15% of the final mark)
5) Critical appraisal (time-limited to 2 hours, structured assignment of 500 words) of a published epidemiological (25% of the final mark)

Formative Assessment

There are no assessments for this course.

Feedback

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Course Learning Outcomes

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