Postgraduate Course: Credits Awarded for Taught Courses [University of Glasgow] Biomarkers for Precision Medicine MED5488 (MCLM11083)

Course Outline
School	Edinburgh Medical School	College	College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine
Credit level (Normal year taken)	SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate)
Course type	Online Distance Learning	Availability	Not available to visiting students
SCQF Credits	20	ECTS Credits	10
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] Biomarkers for Precision Medicine MED5488

Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites		Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations		Other requirements	None

Course Delivery Information
Not being delivered

Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to: Critically discuss the definitions of various biomarker types and how they relate to current translational strategies, including disease stratification, responsiveness to drug therapy and personalised medicine. Critically discuss the methods in identification, optimisation and validation of new and better biomarkers, including statistical evaluation and limitations. Critically discuss the biomarker strategies within the clinical trial design, including the current approaches and practice of patient selection. Critically evaluate the biomarker identification and validation studies, including those in primary publications and systematic reviews Communicate effectively the results of critical evaluation of biomarker identification and validation, and new strategies.