Clinical Epidemiology (online)

This course focuses on the principles and practice of clinical epidemiology, and elaborates on examples from relevant literature. The aim is to provide you with the knowledge to evaluate and assess applied clinical research and data analyses, and give you sufficient scientific and methodological background information to actively participate in clinical studies.

By the end of the course, you should be able to:

• define, explain and apply the basic terminology and principles specific to clinical epidemiology
• differentiate between the different aspects of clinical epidemiological research (diagnostic / etiologic / prognostic / therapeutic)

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

Our courses are aimed at clinical researchers, nurses, general practitioners, and other health professionals who want to improve their skills in epidemiology, statistics and (clinical) research.

3 weeks, 14 hours per week

Even though you can manage your own time our courses are not intended as individual education. We offer personalized online learning with lots of interaction with peer students, the E-moderator and lecturers. Flexibility from students, a positive attitude towards teachers and peers and the willingness to learn together and help each other is invaluable to our courses. To experience maximum interaction, we advise you to log on several times per week.

Note that the starting dates of courses, interim deadlines, and dates of exams are fixed, but you can choose when and where you want to watch web lectures and work on assignments. The e-moderator of the course will inform you about the beginning of the course and about deadlines during the course.

The average required study workload for the courses of MSc Epidemiology Postgraduate Online is 14 hours per week. You will need this time to study, to keep up with the assignments and course material.