Postgraduate Course: Bioinformatics and Study Design in Infectious Diseases (BIME11124)
Course Outline
| School | Deanery of Biomedical Sciences |
College | College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
| Course type | Online Distance Learning |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 10 |
ECTS Credits | 5 |
| Summary | This 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
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | Printing own course materials |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2021/22, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Quota: 50 |
| Course Start |
Flexible |
| Course Start Date |
23/05/2022 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
100
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Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
98 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| 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.
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| Feedback |
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| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Demonstrate understanding of research methods, study design (experimental and theoretical) and execution.
- Develop knowledge in research governance including ethical approval and standards of Good Clinical Practice.
- 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.
- Disseminate research findings to publication standard (e.g. case report, literature review)
- Critically appraise publications in terms of study design and data analysis in the field of infectious diseases.
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Not entered |
| Keywords | experimental design,bioinformatics,study design,data handling,statistics,pathway analysis |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Medhat Khattar
Tel: 0131 242 9437
Email: Medhat.Khattar@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Miss Sarah Fraser
Tel: (0131 6)50 3289
Email: s.fraser@ed.ac.uk |
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