| Department of Large Animal Sciences | |||||||||||||||
| Earliest Possible Year | Post experience Master´s Programme | ||||||||||||||
| Duration | Outside schedule | ||||||||||||||
| Credits | 6 (ECTS) | ||||||||||||||
| Course Level | Post experience masters programme Module 2A, Master Programme in Veterinary Public Health education. | ||||||||||||||
| Examination | Final Examination written examination and oral examination All aids allowed Description of Examination: The participant must submit an individual project report. The report is defended at an oral exam with 15 minutes for presentation, and 15 minutes for questions from the examiners. pass/fail, internal examiner | ||||||||||||||
| Requirement For Attending Exam | Participation in the course and submission of individual project report. | ||||||||||||||
| Organisation of Teaching | |||||||||||||||
| Block Placement | Outside schedule Week Structure: Outside schedule, The course lasts 5 full days, a project period and exam | ||||||||||||||
| Teaching Language | English | ||||||||||||||
| Optional Prerequisites | A degree in veterinary or biological sciences | ||||||||||||||
| Areas of Competence the Course Will Address | |||||||||||||||
| See "Learning outcomes". | |||||||||||||||
| Course Objectives | |||||||||||||||
| See "Learning outcomes". | |||||||||||||||
| Course Contents | |||||||||||||||
| The course is basic epidemiology and will focus on study objectives and hypotheses, study design, nature of data, data management and measures of frequency and association. Diagnostic methods and methods for evaluating agreement will also be included. | |||||||||||||||
| Teaching And Learning Methods | |||||||||||||||
| The lectures are given during one week, plenum discussions and exercises during 5 consecutive days. During the following 4 weeks of the course, participants are working with individual projects - preferably based on own data. Supervision is given during this period. | |||||||||||||||
| Learning Outcome | |||||||||||||||
| At the end of the course it is expected that the participant has the following qualifications: Knowledge: Identify an epidemiological problem to be investigated using relevant descriptive and analytical methods. Skills: Design studies, collect and store data in a database and evaluate data quality. Use relevant epidemiological methods and analyse the data. Competences: Collaborate scientifically with epidemiologists and statisticians and other relevant scientists. Be able to evaluate the validity and reliability of the epidemiological results in relation to generalising to other populations than just the study population. | |||||||||||||||
| Course Litterature | |||||||||||||||
| Houe H, Ersbøll AK, Toft N: Veterinary Epidemiology. Biofolia. 2004. | |||||||||||||||
| Course Coordinator | |||||||||||||||
| Jens Frederik Gramstrup Agger, jfa@life.ku.dk, Department of Large Animal Sciences/Populationsbiology, Phone: 35333013 | |||||||||||||||
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