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)
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Other requirements | None |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2015/16, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Quota: None |
| Course Start |
Semester 1 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
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| 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).
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Additional Information
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Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Beverly Roberts
Tel: (0131 6)50 3368
Email: beverly.roberts@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Dr Beverly Roberts
Tel: (0131 6)50 3368
Email: beverly.roberts@ed.ac.uk |
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