| Institut for Produktionsdyr og Heste | |||||||||||||||
| English title | Veterinary Epidemiology, part 1 | ||||||||||||||
| Tidligst mulig placering | Master udd. (efteruddannelse) | ||||||||||||||
| Varighed | Udenfor blokstruktur | ||||||||||||||
| Pointværdi | 6 (ECTS) | ||||||||||||||
| Kursustype | Master udd. (efteruddannelse) Module 2A, Master Programme in Veterinary Public Health education. | ||||||||||||||
| Eksamen | Sluteksamen skriftlig og mundtlig eksamen Alle hjælpemidler tilladt Beskrivelse af eksamen: 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. bestået/ikke bestået, intern censur | ||||||||||||||
| Forudsætninger for indstilling til eksamen | Participation in the course and submission of individual project report. | ||||||||||||||
| Rammer for undervisning | |||||||||||||||
| Blokplacering | Outside schedule Ugestruktur: Outside schedule, The course lasts 5 full days, a project period and exam | ||||||||||||||
| Undervisningssprog | Engelsk | ||||||||||||||
| Anbefalede forudsætninger | A degree in veterinary or biological sciences | ||||||||||||||
| Kursusindhold | |||||||||||||||
| 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. | |||||||||||||||
| Undervisningsform | |||||||||||||||
| 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. | |||||||||||||||
| Målbeskrivelse | |||||||||||||||
| 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. | |||||||||||||||
| Litteraturhenvisninger | |||||||||||||||
| Houe H, Ersbøll AK, Toft N: Veterinary Epidemiology. Biofolia. 2004. | |||||||||||||||
| Kursusansvarlig | |||||||||||||||
| Jens Frederik Gramstrup Agger, jfa@life.ku.dk, Institut for Produktionsdyr og Heste/Faggruppe: Populationsbiologi, Tlf: 35333013 | |||||||||||||||
| Studienævn | |||||||||||||||
| Studienævn MSN (Master, diplom) | |||||||||||||||
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