Graduate School of health and Medical Sciences

Epidemiological methods in medical research
Provider: Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences

Activity no.: 3602-18-00-00
	Enrollment deadline: 15/12/2017

Date and time	16.01.2018, at: 09:00 - 22.03.2018, at: 16:00
Regular seats	25
Course fee	7,920.00 kr.
Lecturers	Per Kragh Andersen
ECTS credits	7.00

Contact person	Susanne Kragskov Laupstad E-mail address: skl@sund.ku.dk

Enrolment Handling/Course Organiser	PhD administration E-mail address: phdkursus@sund.ku.dk

Aim and content This course is free of charge for PhD students at Danish universities (except Copenhagen Business School). All other participants must pay the course fee. Anyone can apply for the course, but if you are not a PhD student, you will be placed on the waiting list for the course until enrollment deadline. After the deadline of enrollment, available seats will be allocated to students on the waiting list. Course title Epidemiological methods in medical research (previous title: Epidemiology) Learning objectives The purpose of the course is to provide an introduction to modern methods in epidemiology as used in medical research and based on biostatistics. On conclusion of the course the participants should be able to read and understand modern epidemiological methods and design and analyse standard studies. Content The course includes an introduction to options in study design, bias and confounding and to statistical methods for the analysis of epidemiologic data including simple methods for stratified analysis and analysis based on regression models. Illustrative examples are drawn from medical research. Textbook D. Clayton & C. Hills. Statistical Models in Epidemiology. Oxford University Press. M. Szklo & F.J. Nieto. Epidemiology: Beyond the Basics. Jones & Bartlett (3rd. ed.) Leaming. Participants Ph.D. students and others interested in epidemiologic research in medicine. Having completed the course in Basic Statistics is advantageous. Max. 25 participants Relevance to graduate programmes The course is relevant to PhD students from the following graduate programmes at the Graduate School of Health and Medical Sciences, UCPH: Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Cardiovascular Research Clinical Research Language Danish or English Form A mixture of lectures and exercises, including computer practicals, mainly using the SAS program, though participants who wish to use other software are free to do so. You are supposed to bring your own laptop with the statistical program you wish to use installed Course director Professor Per Kragh Andersen, Section of Biostatistics; pkan@sund.ku.dk Teachers Professor Per Kragh Andersen, other members of the staff of Department of Public Health. Dates Tuesdays 16, 22, 30 January, 6, 20, 27 February, 6, 13, 20 March and Thursday 22 March 2018, all days 10-17.00. Course location CSS Registration Please register before 15 December 2017 Seats to PhD students from other Danish universities will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis and according to the applicable rules. Applications from other participants will be considered after the last day of enrolment. Note: All applicants are asked to submit invoice details in case of no-show, late cancellation or obligation to pay the course fee (typically non-PhD students). If you are a PhD student, your participation in the course must be in agreement with your principal supervisor.

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