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Postgraduate Course: Bioinformatics and Study Design in Infectious Diseases (BIME11124)

Course Outline
SchoolDeanery of Biomedical Sciences CollegeCollege of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate)
Course typeOnline Distance Learning AvailabilityNot available to visiting students
SCQF Credits10 ECTS Credits5
SummaryThis course aims to provide the ability to use modern bioinformatic tools, sources and databases for experimental and study design as well as data analysis for laboratory and field in infectious diseases.
Course description Not entered
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Additional Costs Printing own course materials
Course Delivery Information
Academic year 2019/20, Not available to visiting students (SS1) Quota:  50
Course Start Flexible
Course Start Date 25/05/2020
Timetable Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) Total Hours: 100 ( Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 98 )
Assessment (Further Info) Written Exam 0 %, Coursework 100 %, Practical Exam 0 %
Additional Information (Assessment) Formal summative written assessment will constitute 60% of the student's grade. Online assessment will incorporate a variety of activities will constitute 40% of their overall course grade and is taken to represent a formative assessment of learning throughout the programme.
Assessment will be based on various online activities including written submissions (web forms), discussion fora and reflective review. Extensive use of selective release (requiring the student to complete one task before being permitted to proceed to the next) technologies will be made to facilitate interactive and dynamic online assignments.
Feedback Not entered
No Exam Information
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
  1. Demonstrate understanding of research methods, study design (experimental and theoretical) and execution.
  2. Develop knowledge in research governance including ethical approval and standards of Good Clinical Practice.
  3. Explain and carry out the necessary steps to take biomedical research data from unprocessed data to generating and evaluating biomedical hypotheses, including data handling, processing, statistical analysis, explorative analysis and interpretation.
  4. Disseminate research findings to publication standard (e.g. case report, literature review)
  5. Critically appraise publications in terms of study design and data analysis in the field of infectious diseases.
Reading List
None
Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills Not entered
Keywordsexperimental design,bioinformatics,study design,data handling,statistics,pathway analysis
Contacts
Course organiserDr Thorsten Forster
Tel: 0131 242 6287
Email: Thorsten.Forster@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMiss Sarah Fraser
Tel: (0131 6)50 3289
Email: s.fraser@ed.ac.uk
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