| Responsible Department | Department of Large Animal Sciences | ||||||||||||||
| Earliest Possible Year | Post experience Master´s Programme | ||||||||||||||
| Duration | Outside schedule | ||||||||||||||
| Credits | 6 (ECTS) | ||||||||||||||
| Level of Course | Post experience masters programme Module 2 of the Master of Veterinary Public Health program | ||||||||||||||
| Examination | Final Examination oral examination All aids allowed Description of Examination: 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. pass/fail, internal examiner | ||||||||||||||
| Requirement for Attending Exam | Participation in the course and submission of individual project report. | ||||||||||||||
| Organisation of Teaching | 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. | ||||||||||||||
| Block Placement | Outside schedule Week Structure: Outside schedule, The course lasts 5 full days plus a project period and exam | ||||||||||||||
| Language of Instruction | English | ||||||||||||||
| Course Content | |||||||||||||||
| 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). | |||||||||||||||
| Teaching and learning Methods | |||||||||||||||
| 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) | |||||||||||||||
| Learning Outcome | |||||||||||||||
| 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. | |||||||||||||||
| Course Literature | |||||||||||||||
| Houe H, Ersbøll AK, Toft N: Introduction to Veterinary Epidemiology. Biofolia. 2004. Exercises and notes. | |||||||||||||||
| Course Coordinator | |||||||||||||||
| Nils Toft, nt@life.ku.dk, Department of Small Animal Clinical Sciences/Hospital for Mindre Husdyr, Phone: 353-33009 Jens Frederik Gramstrup Agger, jfa@life.ku.dk, Department of Large Animal Sciences/Populationsbiology, Phone: 353-33013 | |||||||||||||||
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