| Responsible Department | Department for Small Animal Clinical Sciences | ||||||||||||
| Research School | Specialised Clinical Diagnostics and Therapeutics (KLINIK) | ||||||||||||
| Course Dates | March-April 2012 | ||||||||||||
| Course Abstract | The course give insight into various approaches of experimental design including concepts like appropriate number of animals, proper control, applicable design types and good clinical practice. Methodological analysis of the participants research problems will give an understanding of the logic of argumentation in clinical research. | ||||||||||||
| Course Registration | E-mail to course leader Professor Thomas Eriksen ter@life.ku.dk | ||||||||||||
| Deadline for Registration | Januar 2012 | ||||||||||||
| Credits | 6 (ECTS) | ||||||||||||
| Level of Course | PhD course | ||||||||||||
| Organisation of Teaching | The course will be located with one part taking place in Denmark and one part in Norway. NOTE THAT Both the theoretical part and the practical approach to students individual research protocols MUST be attended in order to pass the course. | ||||||||||||
| Language of Instruction | English | ||||||||||||
| Restrictions | Yes | ||||||||||||
| Course Content | |||||||||||||
| The course give insight into various approaches of experimental design including concepts like appropriate number of animals, proper control, applicable design types and good clinical practice. Methodological analysis of the participants research problems will give an understanding of the logic of argumentation in clinical research. Another objective is to create an intellectual environment where PhD- students in sub disciplines in veterinary clinical field meet. In this context, the PhD-students will have the opportunity to outline their own research problems to each other and discuss them with specialists in the field. | |||||||||||||
| Teaching and learning Methods | |||||||||||||
| Theoretical teaching, group exercises, presentations and discussion of individual Ph.D. research projects by students and individual supervision on research projects. | |||||||||||||
| Learning Outcome | |||||||||||||
| Background: A variety of experimental designs have been developed in clinical research. They provide a vast assortment of means to test hypothesis and handle sources of variation. Publishing in empirical research without statistical analysis is practically impossible but to understand the reasoning behind the designs is important to increase the level of empirical research. Designs must be flexible with the respect to the requirements of research object under study. Aim: The main objective is to give the participants an understanding of basic principles in clinical research and make participants able to plan and conduct research projects and analyse the data critically. | |||||||||||||
| Course Literature | |||||||||||||
| 1. Hans Houe, Annette Kjær Ersbøll and Nils Toft. Introduction to Veterinary Epidemiology. 2. Stuart J Pocock. Clinical Trials - A practical approach. | |||||||||||||
| Course Material | |||||||||||||
| Compendium will be handed out at the course Hans Houe, Annette Kjær Ersbøll and Nils Toft. Introduction to Veterinary Epidemiology. Stuart J Pocock. Clinical Trials - A practical approach. | |||||||||||||
| Course Coordinator | |||||||||||||
| Mette Berendt, mbe@life.ku.dk, Department of Small Animal Clinical Sciences/, Phone: 353-32922 | |||||||||||||
| Other Lecturers | |||||||||||||
| Prof Stig Larsen, NVH Associate Prof Nils Toft, LIFE-KU | |||||||||||||
| Course Fee | |||||||||||||
| Ph.D. Students in NOVA University Network pay only transport to Denmark and Norway. Participants not included in NOVA University Network must pay cost for transport, participipation and accomodation | |||||||||||||
| Type of Evaluation | |||||||||||||
| Evaluation is by running examination and final evaluation based upon oral presentations and students individual written reports/research protocols | |||||||||||||
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