Course: Basic Clinical Epidemiology

Description: In this course the student will apply the concepts of clinical epidemiology in the clinical context of patient-related studies.

At the end of the course students should be able to: 

• Understand how to create and manage databases
• Know strong and weak points of namely cohort and cross sectional study designs and basic measures
• Describe the basics and limitations of randomized clinical trials and costs as outcome
• Know the basics of diagnostic research

Entry requirements  
courses Study design & Medical Statistics
NB. these requirements apply only for Research Master students; there are no entry requirements for PhD students 

Material 
Book: Clinical Epidemiology. Principles, Methods, and Applications for Clinical Research. Diederick E. Grobbee, Arno W. Hoes. Jones and Bartlett Learning: Second edition, 2015.

Background literature that will be available from Nestor.

Evaluation 
At least a presence of 80% and a written exam

Calendar 
Timetable

Date

December 9–20, 2019

Time

to be announced

EC (with exam)

3

Location address

Course coordinator

• Prof. Truuske de Bock
  

Language

English

Target Groups

• ReMa students
• PhD students

Vacancies

fully booked

Registration

Register for the waiting list

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