Module EW3610-KP05
Epidemiology (Epid)
Duration
1 Semester
Turnus of offer
each summer semester
Credit points
5
Course of studies, specific fields and terms:
- Bachelor Nutritional Medicine 2024, compulsory, Nutritional Sciences
- Bachelor Nutritional Medicine 2018, compulsory, Nutritional Sciences
- Bachelor Nutritional Medicine 2016, compulsory, Nutritional Sciences
Classes and lectures:
- Epidemiology (exercise, 2 SWS)
- Epidemiology (lecture, 2 SWS)
Workload:
- 10 hours exam preparation
- 60 hours in-classroom work
- 80 hours private studies
Contents of teaching:
- Lecture:
- Introduction to Epidemiology
- Diagnostic
- Frequency Measurement
- Study designs (randomized controlled trials, cohort study, case-control study, cross-sectional study)
- Effect measures
- Causality
- Randomness, Bias and Confounding
- Error control
- Exercise:
- Critical reading and evaluation of original scientific papers
- Evaluation and interpretation of study results
- Preparation of a study plan
Qualification-goals/Competencies:
- Students can explain specific technical terms such as incidence, prevalence, mortality and lethality.
- They can explain and interpret epidemiological measures.
- They can judge which study design is considered adequate for which specific questions.
- They can judge whether the study methodology applied leads to reliable or biased results.
- They can formally analyse and critically evaluate the internal and external validity as well as the reporting quality of a scientific paper using checklists.
- They are able to evaluate data, methods and results of (nutritional) epidemiological research and scientific papers in the context of medicine and epidemiology.
Grading through:
- written exam
Responsible for this module:
Teacher:
- Institute for Social Medicine and Epidemiology
- Louisa Labohm, M.Sc.
- MitarbeiterInnen des Instituts
Literature:
- L. Gordis : Epidemiology Philadelphia: Saunders; 4th edition (May 14, 2008)
- :
- alternativ: L. Gordis : Epidemiology Oxford: Elsevier: 6th edition 2019
Language:
- German and English skills required
Notes:
Prerequisites for attending the module:- None
Prerequisites for the exam:
- None
Last Updated:
06.02.2023