Knowledge:
After completing the course, the student knows about:
- basic epidemiological methods
- basic methods relevant for prevention and health promotion care
Skills:
After completing the course, the student is 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 student is 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
Supervised group work
Individual test (Mitt UiB).
Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care
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