Epidemiology
Postgraduate course
- ECTS credits
- 2
- Teaching semesters
- Spring
- Course code
- MEDEPI
- Number of semesters
- 1
- Teaching language
- Norwegian
- Resources
- Schedule
- Reading list
Course description
Objectives and Content
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge:
After completing the course, the student knows about:
- basic epidemiological methods
- basic methods relevant for prevention and health promotion care
Skills:
After completing the course, the student is able to
- discuss the most important study designs and their strengths and weaknesses
- understand measures of occurrence (incidence, prevalence), associations, effect modification/interaction and principles of screening
- assess possible sources of errors and causality in published studies
- use their knowledge to plan and execute studies
General skills:
After completing the course, the student is able to:
- hold the theoretical knowledge necessary to independently assess published studies related to medical causal research
- critically reflect over scientific literature and participate in discussions
Semester of Instruction
Required Previous Knowledge
Credit Reduction due to Course Overlap
Access to the Course
Teaching and learning methods
Compulsory Assignments and Attendance
Supervised group work
Individual test (Mitt UiB).