| Ansvarligt institut | 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 2 of the Master of Veterinary Public Health program | ||||||||||||||
| Eksamen | Sluteksamen mundtlig eksamen Alle hjælpemidler tilladt Beskrivelse af eksamen: The participant must submit an individual project report. The report is defended at the 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 | The course is taught during weeks 35-39, 2010. Intensive teaching is given during one week with lectures and exercises. During the next four weeks the participants must write a project protocol as the basis for oral examination. | ||||||||||||||
| Blokplacering | Outside schedule Ugestruktur: Outside schedule, The course lasts 5 full days plus a project period and exam | ||||||||||||||
| Undervisningssprog | Engelsk | ||||||||||||||
| Kursusindhold | |||||||||||||||
| The course is the first of two courses in Veterinary Epidemiology. The aim of the course is that the participants should be able to design an epidemiological study in a population, where there is a clear description (and association between) hypothesis, study design, sampling methods, measures of frequency and association, nature of data, etc. Furthermore, the course focuses on practical data management (including data control, establishment of a data base and data editing). There will be no analyses of participant data, but the protocol must be based on the individual projects. The protocol can be written with reference to the data used for the course Veterinary epidemiology, part 2 (course no. 150222). | |||||||||||||||
| Undervisningsform | |||||||||||||||
| The first 5 days of the course is a mixture of lectures, plenum discussions and exercises. During the next 4 weeks, participants are working with their protocol under supervision. The protocol is handed in on Wednesday in the final week and the examination is on Friday. Each participant is expected to bring a laptop for the exercises. The laptop must have Microsoft Word (or compatible software) and SAS installed. (The latter can be obtained from the library at LIFE or installed during the first day) | |||||||||||||||
| Målbeskrivelse | |||||||||||||||
| The course is the first module in Veterinary Epidemiology. It focuses on planning an epidemiological study by writing the outline of a protocol for carrying out an observational study. The course introduces the concepts associated with basic epidemiology, e.g. study objectives and hypotheses, study design, nature of data, data management and measures of frequency and association. The focus is on practical application of the concepts, by writing the protocol and by practical data management using SAS. 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 epidemiological and statistical methods. Skills: Design studies, collect and store data in a database and evaluate data quality. Develop a research protocol using relevant epidemiological methods. Competences: Collaborate scientifically with epidemiologists and statisticians and other relevant scientists. Be able to evaluate the validity and reliability of the epidemiological study in relation to generalising future study results to other populations than just the study population. | |||||||||||||||
| Litteraturhenvisninger | |||||||||||||||
| Houe H, Ersbøll AK, Toft N: Introduction to Veterinary Epidemiology. Biofolia. 2004. Exercises and notes. | |||||||||||||||
| Kursusansvarlig | |||||||||||||||
| Nils Toft, nt@life.ku.dk, Institut for Mindre Husdyrs Sygdomme/Hospital for Mindre Husdyr, Tlf: 353-33009 Jens Frederik Gramstrup Agger, jfa@life.ku.dk, Institut for Produktionsdyr og Heste/Faggruppe: Populationsbiologi, Tlf: 353-33013 | |||||||||||||||
| Studienævn | |||||||||||||||
| Studienævn MSN (Master, diplom) | |||||||||||||||
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