Knowledge:
After completing the course, the students should be able to
- know about basic epidemiological methods
- know about basic methods relevant for prevention and health promotion care
Skills:
After completing the course, the students should be able to
- discuss the most important study designs and their strengths and weaknesses
- understand measures of occurrence (incidence, prevalence), associations, effect modification/interaction and principles of screening
- assess possible sources of errors and causality in published studies
- use their knowledge to plan and execute studies
General skills:
After completing the course, the students should be able to
- hold the theoretical knowledge necessary to independently assess published studies related to medical causal research
- critically reflect over scientific literature and participate in discussions
Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care
E-mail:studie@igs.uib.no
Professor Tone Bjørge, IGS.
http://www.uib.no/persons/Tone.Bjorge