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Advanced Topics in Causal Research

This course will address two important topics in causal epidemiologic research, namely confounding and effect modification. These topics will be discussed in the context of both etiologic research and observational intervention research. Effect modification and confounding are difficult concepts to understand and often mixed up. In this course the theory as well as the practical side of these issues will be discussed.

At the end of the course, you'll should be able to:

  • understand the concept of confounding
  • understand the different methods to determine whether there is confounding and to adjust for confounding, and is able to apply these methods in a computer practice
  • understand more advanced methods to adjust for confounding namely propensity score method and instrumental variable method, and is able to apply these methods in a computer practice
  • understand the usefulness of sensitivity analysis to estimate the impact of unmeasured confounding, and is able to apply these methods in a computer practice
  • understand the concept of effect modification
  • understand the difference between effect modification on an additive and a multiplicative scale and is able to calculate effect modification, and its confidence interval, on an additive and a multiplicative scale by hand and by computer
  • understand the different ways to present effect modification in a paper and can derive information on effect modification from published studies
  • understand the difference between effect modification and confounding
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Quick overview

Start date: 03 Apr 2023

1.5 ECTS

Web lectures, exercises, group discussions

Duration: 3 weeks

Academic Certificate

English

Workload: 14 hrs-per-week

Online learning, with guidance and support

980

How would you like to study Epidemiology?

Single courses

One of the unique aspects of our learning approach is that you can choose to take an individual course rather than the whole MSc program. Experience one course from the MSc, having the same faculty and classmates with the convenience of self-enrollment.
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Online

In the full part-time MSc Program, you gain extensive knowledge and practical skills in patient-oriented research design, quantitative analysis and its application to human or veterinary medicine. The MSc Epidemiology Online starts in February and September.
Online Program

Face-to-Face

If your prefer to study in a face-to-face setting, you might want to consider applying for the identical fulltime face-to-face 1,5 year program in Utrecht, the Netherlands.

This program also starts in September, with the same course offerings.

Face-to-Face Program
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Questions? Contact us

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For questions about online learning info@elevatehealth.eu
For program information, admission & content msc-epidemiology@umcutrecht.nl

By phone
For questions about online learning +31 (0)85 4885381
For program information, admission & content +31 (0)88 7569710

Master Structure

  • 8 core courses
  • 3 specialization tracks
  • Research project

Specializations

  • Clinical Epidemiology
  • Veterinary Epidemiology
  • General Epidemiology

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The study of Epidemiology

Epidemiology has grown to be an indispensable asset for researchers, clinicians and practitioners. Far reaching in its impact. It is the foundation of evidence-based medicine for the individual patient and the cornerstone of public health policy for societies.

Epidemiology as a scientific discipline is an excellent option; for the doctor, who wishes to be armed with both biomedical knowledge and statistical wisdom when looking for the right patient care of their individual patient. Also for the public health professional, who faced with global health questions does not wish to lose sight of the impact for the individual. And for the veterinarian who is faced with challenges that play a national role yet must look at the impact on individual cases.
 
 

A Master of Epidemiology at Utrecht University

Epidemiology at Utrecht University is uniquely placed to offer you the broad context of epidemiology across human pharmaceutical and veterinarian branches. Not least through having the only faculty of veterinary medicine in the Netherlands, its content has been assembled across an impressive faculty from the Health sciences; Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences (UIPS) and the interfaculty Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences (IRAS). In addition, Utrecht Science Park accommodates Utrecht Life Sciences, a strategic alliance between academia, public institutions private organizations and government in order to drive innovations in human and veterinary health care.

 
 

Online Education

It goes beyond the obvious advantages of online education, in the flexibility of allowing students to study at their institute of choice wherever their research or practice is. Online education at Utrecht University is where every student counts, each opinion being valued. It specifically helps students to develop skills on how to give and get the best out of feedback on assignments or research projects.

The MSc Epidemiology from Utrecht University has a unique history. The learning platform was custom built for this program. It was built with a global classroom in mind. Taking into account how to incorporate individual experiences and allow each unique perspective to make the learning experience the best possible and truly global. The content was meticulously converted to an online variant to take advantage of this.

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