Postgraduate Course: Credits Awarded to Taught Courses [University of Glasgow] Advanced Epidemiology MED5523 (PUHR11110)
Course Outline
| School | Deanery of Molecular, Genetic and Population Health Sciences |
College | College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | This is a placeholder course, designed to record marks for the University of Glasgow part of the programme, PRPHDISPME1F: Precision Medicine (PhD with Integrated Study) |
| Course description |
Please see [University of Glasgow] Advanced Epidemiology MED5523 for Components of Assessment
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Both critique and design epidemiological research informed by an understanding of counterfactual thinking and causal diagrams, including a critical understanding of the limits of these approaches
- Recognise important biases and understand how these affect interpretation of findings, understand how such biases can be dealt with through study design and/or statistical analysis and have a critical understanding of the relative strengths and limitations of different methodological approaches.
- Critically understand how quantitative methods can be used to apply effect measures to target populations, as well as the assumptions such approaches require.
- Critically understand the major methodological issues in natural experiment studies, administrative data analyses and life-course epidemiology and relate these to major theories across the wider field (i.e. collider bias, confounding etc).
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
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| Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Susan Farrington
Tel: (0131) 332 2471
Email: Susan.Farrington@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Mrs Maree Hardie
Tel:
Email: maree.hardie@ed.ac.uk |
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