Master Epidemiology 2024-2025.pdf
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… the topic of the preceding lecture). The course will be attended by students of the Epidemiology and Health Sciences Research master’s programmes. Besides these students, the course will be available as a stand-alone course for anyone who wants to become acquainted with basic epidemiological methods. Course objectives Knowledge and understanding The course participant: Is able to distinguish between various measures of frequency of health outcomes (i.e. cumulative incidence, incidence density, … Moreover, quantification of a number of methodological phenomena, such as confounding and effect modification will take place. Students will learn to evaluate various observational designs regarding strengths and weaknesses, depending on the setting where these designs are being applied. By means of lectures, exercises and skills training sessions attention will be paid to the following aspects: Observational research designs and their advantages and disadvantages: case-control studies, cohort … reading This is the link to Keylinks, our online reference list. EPI4925 Period 3 6 Jan 2025 31 Jan 2025 Print course description ECTS credits: 3.0 Instruction language: English Coordinator: M.P. Weijenberg Teaching methods: Lecture(s), Patientcontact, Training(s) Assessment methods: Participation, Written exam Keywords: molecular-epidemiology; genetic-epidemiology; biomarkers; omics; mendelian randomization; GWAS; big data; Fac. Health, Medicine and Life Sciences …