Clinical Epidemiology

In particular, you should be able to:
• Construct a clinical research question that includes outcome, determinants and domain
• Characterize different data collection designs used in clinical epidemiology
• Design a clinical epidemiological study
• Name and identify the data analysis techniques that are used for the different types of clinical epidemiological studies
• Interpret the basic data analysis results of a clinical epidemiological study
• Explain the concepts of bias, and the issues concerning confounding bias
• Read and explain clinical epidemiological scientific papers and identify, in these papers, which design of data collection and data analysis were used

• A BSc degree in biomedical sciences, pharmaceutical sciences, medical education or veterinary medicine, or a comparable degree
• Basic knowledge of epidemiological and statistical data analysis. Elevate courses offering this knowledge include Introduction to Epidemiology and Introduction to Statistics. You will also need to have basic knowledge of study designs in order to fully understand the assignments and content of this course.