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Research Ethics: an Introduction

How can we ensure that participants give their genuinely informed consent? What should be provided to control groups during clinical trials? How can we weigh the risks and benefits of various studies? How can we ensure scientific integrity in research? When should we conduct research with vulnerable populations, such as children and people in low- and middle-income countries? How should we interpret the Tuskegee syphilis study from a historical perspective?

There’s never a shortage of questions; it’s the answers that are harder to determine. For example, what type of consent is appropriate for biobanking research? When are the risks and benefits of research appropriately balanced? What special protection mechanisms are needed to include “vulnerable” study populations? How can we ensure scientific integrity in research? During this course, you will tackle these and other issues, while learning to apply theoretical insights to recent cases.

Research Ethics has been accredited by ABAN (KNMG) with 15 credits.

By the end of the course, you should be able to:

  • Discern the morally salient dimensions of a research project, and come to a well-considered judgment about the acceptability of such a project
  • Reflect on moral dilemmas for researchers and Research Ethics Committees, and be able to systematically analyze such dilemmas
  • Weigh the various arguments involved, and work towards a well-reasoned position or decision
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Our Professors

Rieke van der Graaf MSc PhD

Rieke van der Graaf is an assistant professor medical ethics at the UMC Utrecht. She studied classics and theology at Leiden University and has written a PhD thesis on 'Ethical fundamentals in human subjects research. On equipoise and human dignity' (2010). Her current research interests are global justice in international research, the integration of care and research, and the ethics of innovative research designs.

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Frank Huisman PhD

Professor Frank Huisman studied History at Groningen University. In 1992, he earned his PhD at the Free University in Amsterdam with a thesis on early modern Dutch health care, for which he was awarded the five-yearly Lindeboom prize. In 2006 he was appointed professor in the History of Medicine at the University Medical Centre in Utrecht, where he is also a member of the Descartes Centre for the History and Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities.

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Hans van Delden MD PhD

Professor Hans van Delden is professor of medical ethics at the Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care of the medical school of Utrecht University. At the Julius Center he has built a strong group of ethicists devoted to high quality education in the medical humanities and research, primarily in research ethics and end-of-life issues. He is the president of the Council of International Organisations of Medical Sciences.

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Kit Roes MSc PhD

Kit Roes is Director Quality and Patient Safety of the University Medical Center Utrecht and Professor of Biostatistics at the Julius Center. He joined the UMC Utrecht in 2009, after a career in industry. His experience includes over 15 years in research and development in the pharmaceutical industry and life sciences research and 10 years of experience in industrial statistics.

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Quick overview

Start date: TBA

1.5 ECTS

Web lectures, exercises, group discussions

Duration: 6 weeks

Academic Certificate

English

Workload: 7 hrs-per-week

Online learning, with guidance and support

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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.
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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.

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

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For questions about online learning +31 (0)30 253 7225
For program information, admission & content +31 (0)88756 9710

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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