| Responsible Department | Department of Large Animal Sciences | ||||||||||
| Course Dates | Lectures: 30 Aug 2010 - 3 Sep 2010. Project: 6 Sep 2010 - 29 Sep 2010 Exam: 1 Oct 2010 | ||||||||||
| Course Registration | To sign up for the course, please send an e-mail to Nils Toft at nt@life.ku.dk. Please also remember to add the course to your PhD plan. | ||||||||||
| Deadline for Registration | 1 Aug 2010 | ||||||||||
| Credits | 6 (ECTS) | ||||||||||
| Level of Course | PhD course | ||||||||||
| Language of Instruction | Danish | ||||||||||
| Course Content | |||||||||||
| 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. The course is the first of three modules 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 and if the participant plans to follow Module 2 and 3, the protocol could be written with reference to the data used for these modules. | |||||||||||
| 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. | |||||||||||
| 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. | |||||||||||
| Course Coordinator | |||||||||||
| Nils Toft, nt@life.ku.dk, Department of Small Animal Clinical Sciences/Hospital for Mindre Husdyr, Phone: 353-33009 | |||||||||||
| Type of Evaluation | |||||||||||
| Project report and presentation of report | |||||||||||
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