Study Design for Veterinary Epidemiological Research (online)

This course teaches study design for veterinary epidemiological research, focusing on those aspects specific to animal health. You will encounter typical confounders in veterinary epidemiology, such as breed and parity, but also get to work with clustered sampling, such as by farm, and diagnostics without a gold standard. During the course, you will learn that these concepts are relevant for human epidemiology as well.

You will learn to apply epidemiological know-how and statistical methods during hands-on computer practical and lectures.

Veterinary Epidemiology is broad concept therefore there were multiple online courses created. These courses can be ordered in a bundle. This bundle consists out of 3 online courses: Study Design in Veterinary Epidemiology, Epidemiology of Animal Infectious Diseases and Hands-on Veterinary Epidemiology. The bundle offers 20% discount, read more about it here.

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

• Understand the specific issues in veterinary epidemiology, such as clustered occurrence of disease, specific veterinary confounders, such as breed and parity
• Be able to analyse a veterinary data set following a structured approach
• Understand and be able to describe study designs for diagnostic test evaluation with and without gold standard
• Recognize sampling schemes for prevalence estimation and to determine freedom-from-disease, and do power-calculations for basic sampling designs

3 weeks, 14 per hours

Please note, even though you can manage your own time our courses are not intended as individual education. By learning together you will gain depth in your learning process, which is very important. Therefore 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

Veterinary Epidemiology is broad concept therefore there were multiple online courses created. These courses can be ordered in a bundle. This bundle consists out of 3 online courses: Study Design in Veterinary Epidemiology, Epidemiology of Animal Infectious Diseases and Hands-on Veterinary Epidemiology. The bundle offers 20% discount, read more about it here.