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PhD courses and programmes 2005
NOVA 7-05
Post graduate course on Veterinary Epidemiology, Part 1(2)
Topic: Veterinary Epidemiology
| Course period | May 31 - June 10, 2005 |
| Location | Congress hotel Siikaranta, Espoo, Finland |
| Course credit | 4 ECTS |
| Deadline for application | March 1, 2005 |
| Course abstract | The course will consist of a series of major modules covering: measures of disease frequency, screening tests, basic statistics, measures of association, confounding and interaction, linear regression and material will be presented as a mixture of lectures and "hands-on" laboratory sessions. Students will be expected to familiarize themselves with the major types of epidemiologic studies through some assigned pre-course readings. Students will get a chance to work on a group exercise that will incorporate all of the above elements into a study design. |
| Teachers | Ian R. Dohoo and S. Wayne Martin |
| Link to course homepage | http://www.vetmed.helsinki.fi/pell/mikrobiologia/EPI_Nova.htm |
| Language | English |
| The course is intended for | PhD students in veterinary medicine and other PhD students with similar background in biology. |
| Max no of participants | 32 PhD-students + up to 8 non PhD students who pay for themselves |
| Special prerequisites | - |
| Course organization | Department of Basic Veterinary Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Helsinki |
| Course leader | Anna-Maija Virtala (anna-maija.virtala@helsinki.fi) |
| Postal address to course leader | P.O. Box 66, F-00014 University of Helsinki |
| Phone to course leader | +358 9 19157066 |
| Fax to course leader | +358 9 19157004 |
| E-mail to course leader | anna-maija.virtala@helsinki.fi |
| Registration to | Denmark:
Jens.F.Agger@ihh.kvl.dk Sweden: Marie.Engel@epid.slu.se Norway: Rolf.B.Larssen@veths.no |
| Other courses in the course series | Part 2 in Denmark in 2006 |
