This course focuses on the principles and practice of clinical epidemiology, and elaborates on examples from relevant literature. The aim is to provide you with the knowledge to evaluate and assess applied clinical research and data analyses, and give you sufficient scientific and methodological background information to actively participate in clinical studies.
During the course, you will focus on questions of diagnosis, prognosis, treatment and etiology. Several research options are available to help you address these questions, including intervention trials and case-control studies using data obtained in a clinical setting.
By the end of the course, you should be able to:
- Define, explain and apply the basic terminology and principles specific to clinical epidemiology
- Differentiate between the different aspects of clinical epidemiological research (diagnostic / etiologic / prognostic / therapeutic)
In particular, you should be able to:
- Construct a clinical research question that includes outcome, determinants and domain
- Characterize different data collection designs used in clinical epidemiology
- Design a clinical epidemiological study
- Name and identify the data analysis techniques that are used for the different types of clinical epidemiological studies
- Interpret the basic data analysis results of a clinical epidemiological study
- Explain the concepts of bias, and the issues concerning confounding bias
- Read and explain clinical epidemiological scientific papers and identify, in these papers, which design of data collection and data analysis were used
Our Professors
Diederick Grobbee MD PhD
Diederick E. (Rick) Grobbee is a Professor of Clinical Epidemiology
Arno Hoes MD PhD
Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Vice-Chairman of the Executive Board
Prof Dr Arno Hoes has been dean and vice-chairman of the board of directors of UMC Utrecht since 1 June 2019. He is Professor of Clinical Epidemiology in General Practice at Utrecht University and was, until his appointment, as dean, division chair of the Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care at UMC Utrecht. His research and teaching activities mainly focused on the (early) diagnosis, therapy and prognosis of cardiovascular diseases and on the methods of clinical research.
Testimonials
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I followed the Clinical Epidemiology course to get an impression of the educational and epidemiological vision of the Julius Center, UMC Utrecht. I found distance learning to be a very good way to study; you can follow the teaching assignments when it suits you, and also pause or repeat a lecture at your leisure, which of course is not the case in face-to-face teaching. Collaborating with other students went well.
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