Postgraduate Course: Credits Awarded to Taught Courses [University of Glasgow] Infectious Disease Ecology BIOL5123 (GLHE11091)
Course Outline
| School | Deanery of Molecular, Genetic and Population Health 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 is a placeholder course, designed to record marks for the University of Glasgow part of the programme, PRPHDISPME1F: Precision Medicine (PhD with Integrated Study). |
| Course description |
Please see [University of Glasgow] Infectious Disease Ecology and the Dynamics of Emerging Disease (BIOL5123) for Course Description.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
Course Delivery Information
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Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Critically discuss the distinction between: frequency and density-dependent transmission; micro and macroparasite models, the concept of herd immunity, the principles behind standard vaccination strategies, the distinction between and appropriate use of stochastic and deterministic formulations, the definition and conceptual framework for the basic reproduction number, the concept of critical community size, the context for use of metapopulation models, impacts of host heterogeneity on infection dynamics, the use of standard model types in the epidemiological literature
- Program standard epidemiological models in R and interpret outputs
- Calculate the basic reproduction number for simple epidemiological models
- Identify and interpret equilibria in standard epidemiological models
- Generate a mathematical description of an infection dynamics model for a problem of their own choice
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
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| Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Susan Farrington
Tel: (0131) 332 2471
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Course secretary | Mrs Maree Hardie
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