Postgraduate Course: Cognitive Epidemiology (GMED11034)

Course Outline
School	Deanery of Clinical Sciences	College	College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine
Credit level (Normal year taken)	SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate)	Availability	Not available to visiting students
SCQF Credits	10	ECTS Credits	5
Summary	This course will give an introduction to cognitive epidemiology and its research methods covering study design and methodological issues that must be considered when completing a cognitive epidemiology research project.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites		Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations		Other requirements	None

Course Delivery Information

Academic year 2015/16, Not available to visiting students (SS1)		Quota: None
Course Start	Semester 1
Timetable	Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info)	Please contact the School directly for a breakdown of Learning and Teaching Activities
Assessment (Further Info)	Please contact the School directly for a breakdown of Assessment Methods
Additional Information (Assessment)	Weekly online assessments and discussion board participation (100%)
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Learning Outcomes
Methodological learning points: - To understand the distinction and strengths weaknesses of each of the basic study designs in epidemiology (RCT, ecological studies, cross sectional studies, case-control studied and cohort studies), and their relevance to cognitive epidemiology. - To be able to interpret measures of effect (odds ratios, rate ratios, rate differences) and precision (confidence intervals). - To understand alternative explanations for associations in observational epidemiology (chance, bias, reverse causality, and, particularly, confounding). Subject-specific learning points: - To understand the need for pre-morbid measurements of cognition in studies of disease aetiology. - To be able to identify future directions of the area (e.g., change in cognition and disease risk, genetics etc).