ECTS credits ECTS credits: 6
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 102 Hours of tutorials: 6 Expository Class: 18 Interactive Classroom: 24 Total: 150
Use languages Spanish, Galician
Type: Ordinary subject Master’s Degree RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Departments: Psychiatry, Radiology, Public Health, Nursing and Medicine
Areas: Preventive Medicine and Public Health
Center Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry
Call: First Semester
Teaching: With teaching
Enrolment: Enrollable | 1st year (Yes)
To enable the students to design epidemiological studies.
To enable the students to analyze epidemiological studies.
To enable the students to perform a complete meta-analysis, from the bibliographic search to the interpretation of the results.
1: Basic concepts "ma non troppo": rate, proportion, odds, ratio, and misinterpretations.
2: Incidence and prevalence: use, misuse and abuse. Relationship between both measures
3: Measures of effect or association and their errors of interpretation
4: Classification of epidemiological designs: myths, mistakes and proposals
5: The experimental study as a paradigm of epidemiologic studies
6: The cohort study and its equivalent the case-control study
7: Other designs in epidemiology
8: Systematic reviews
9: Meta-analysis: Theory and practice
Ahlbom A, Alfredsson L, Alfvén T, Bennet A. Fundamentos de epidemiología. Siglo XXI Editores, 2010.
Rothman KJ. Modern Epidemiology. Ed Little, Brown and Co. 1986. Reference book in epidemiology where the different epidemiological designs are explained in detail. This first edition is recommended. More recent editions are also available.
Gordis L. Epidemiology. Elsevier, 2019.
General competences:
o Design and analyze epidemiological studies
Specific competences:
o To know the different designs of epidemiological studies
o To know how to detect biases in epidemiological studies
o To know how to propose a meta-analysis project in an epidemiological context
In the first session the instructor will advise on the most relevant. The instructor will mention the objectives that the student will have to reach and will present the topics encouraging the participation of the students
Prior to seminar sessions, the instructor will communicate the objectives of the seminar, provide the basic bibliography, guide the search for complementary bibliography, and organize the work in different groups to enhance team work. Students must have previously worked on the subject.
Students with more than 10% of absences will not be able to take the exam.
The students must do all the obligatory assignments.
The exam will count up to 100% of the grade. The weight of the exam may be lowered if the additional assignments are given to the students. The weight of these activities may be up to 30% of the final grade.
For cases of fraudulent conduct in exercises or exams, the USC "Normativa de avaliación do rendemento académico dos estudantes e de revisión de cualificacións" will apply to USC students.
The assignments that are presented in the seminars must be carried out outside the classroom. Students will have to expand on their own the contents of the theoretical classes, using the bibliographic references provided.
Attend all classes, consult all doubts and actively participate in seminars and group work.
CONTINGENCY PLAN
1. TEACHING METHODOLOGY
Should the competent authorities establish the application of scenario 2 (Distancing), the teaching methodology will be the same as that in scenario 1 (Adapted normality). However, if classrooms do not have sufficient capacity to keep social distancing norms, the various groups of students will alternate, when possible, for on-site classes and remote ones through institutional online tools: Campus Virtual and, in synchronously and following the official course schedule, MS Teams (and other tools included in the Office 365 package).
Should the competent authorities establish the application scenario 3 (Lockdown), the only change affecting the teaching methodology will be that the course will be conducted exclusive online via institutional online tools: Campus Virtual and, in synchronously and following the official course schedule, MS Teams (and other tools included in the Office 365 package).
2 ASSESSMENT
In the case of a Health Emergency State with the subsequent implementation of scenarios 2 or 3, the same percentages in the punctuation and the same types of assignments and exams will be maintained. Scenario 2: if classrooms do not have sufficient capacity to keep social distancing norms, the assignments will be carried out online through institutional means. Scenario 3: the exams will be carried out online through institutional means.
El Bahi Takkouche Souilamas
Coordinador/a- Department
- Psychiatry, Radiology, Public Health, Nursing and Medicine
- Area
- Preventive Medicine and Public Health
- Phone
- 881812268
- bahi.takkouche [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Lecturer
Alberto Ruano Raviña
- Department
- Psychiatry, Radiology, Public Health, Nursing and Medicine
- Area
- Preventive Medicine and Public Health
- Phone
- 881812267
- alberto.ruano [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Professor
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