ECTS: 3.3
Course leader: Deirdre Cronin Fenton
Language: English
Graduate school: Faculty of Health
Graduate program: ClinFO
Course fee: 3,960.00 DKK
Status: Course is open for application
Semester: Spring 2027
Application deadline: 10/01/2027
Cancellation deadline: 24/01/2027
Course type: Classroom teaching
Start date: 22/02/2027
Administrator: Thilde Møller Risgaard
The course C177/16 Introduction to Clinical Epidemiology is being offered by the Graduate School of Health, Aarhus University, spring 2027.
Criteria for participation: University degree in medicine, dentistry, nursing, or Master’s degree in other fields and/or postgraduate research fellows (PhD students and research-year medical students). Completion of pregraduate courses in epidemiology and/or biostatistics or equivalent is required.
Aim: To introduce PhD students to the fundamentals of design and analysis of clinical epidemiology research. Each concept will be introduced in a lecture. Students will then carry out in-class exercises applying the fundamental principles introduced in the lecture to actual examples from the scientific literature. Students are not required to complete an exam at the end of the course. Participation is mandatory to achieve ECTs points.
Learning outcomes:
The course includes lectures and exercises on the following:
- 1) Providing a broad knowledge and understanding of clinical epidemiology
- 2) Designing a clinical epidemiology study
- 3) Understanding measures of disease frequency, effect and association, and which are appropriate to each study design
- 4) Assessing study validity, including identifying various biases and sources of error in epidemiological studies
- 5) Interpreting clinical epidemiology research papers
Head of Course: Deirdre Cronin Fenton
Instructors: Deirdre Cronin Fenton, Christian F. Christiansen, Signe Sørup, Julie A. Schmidt, Cathrine F. Hjorth, Lau Amdisen, and Reimar Thomsen.
Teaching consists of ten 3-hour sessions, each with 1.5 hour lectures and 1.5 hour workshops.
Venue: Aarhus University, Aarhus (other)
Participation in the course is without cost for:
- PhD students, Health Research Year students from Aarhus University
- PhD students enrolled at partner universities of the Nordoc collaboration
- PhD students from other institutions in the open market agreement for PhD courses
Course dates:
- 22 February 2027 09:00 - 15:30
- 24 February 2027 09:00 - 15:30
- 26 February 2027 09:00 - 15:30
- 01 March 2027 09:00 - 15:30
- 03 March 2027 09:00 - 15:30