As one of the very few online medical courses in veterinary epidemiology that is available, this course is highly suitable for veterinary researchers with an interest in epidemiology. It is taught by epidemiologists from the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, and forms part of the MSc Epidemiology program of the UMC Utrecht and Utrecht University.
Hands-on means Hands-on in this course! We might even call it a master-class in veterinary epidemiological research. This course offers you the opportunity to practice and improve your skills in analyzing animal health data. You will go through the process of formulating a hypothesis, visualizing and analyzing data, interpretation the results, and reporting.
For this course you are allowed (and encouraged) to work on you own data set. This data set
needs to fulfil certain criteria:
• It is about epidemiology of animal diseases or a zoonosis
• You have access to the data
• The data analysis is not yet completed or you would like to investigate another subset of the data
• Preferably the data is gathered during observational research, but RCT’s or animal experiments can sometimes be interesting as well
Veterinary Epidemiology is broad concept therefore there were multiple online courses created. These courses can be ordered in a bundle. This bundle consists out of 3 online courses: Study Design for Veterinary Epidemiology, Epidemiology of Animal Infectious Diseases and Hands-on Veterinary Epidemiology. The bundle offers 20% discount, read more about it here.
By the end of the course, you will be able to:
• Perform the analyses required for a veterinary disease epidemiological research
• Interpret results in the context of the research question for veterinary disease epidemiological research
• Modelling approach and causal diagrams
• Descriptive statistics
• Analysis plan
• Uncertainty and model evaluation
During the course, you will be guided while working on this project by epidemiologists and statisticians. The week ends with presenting the results of your work both written and orally.
To enroll in this course, you need:
• Completed the course Modern Methods in Data Analysis (or equivalent course)
• Basic skill in R (or in another computer language such as Python or C++)
• Sufficient proficiency in English reading and writing
We offer discounts for participants from Low- and Lower-middle-income Countries. Utrecht University and UMC Utrecht employees and students are eligible for a 10% discount. Unfortunately, we don’t offer any scholarships.
No, there aren’t any set times you should be online as it is an asynchronous course. All the web lectures are already pre-recorded. However there will be deadlines each week (during the week as well on weekends). Each week consists of approximately 14 study hours. To experience maximum interaction, we advise you to log in several times per week. Furthermore, you should be aware that the teacher and the e-moderator are off on weekends.
No, this is not possible because the course contains group assignments, so you can’t work ahead. Each week, a new learning unit will be made available. This means that not all the learning units are open simultaneously. Additionally, you can’t catch up on the course because there are deadlines to meet every week.
After enrollment, you will receive a confirmation email. A week before the course officially starts, you will receive an email with more detailed information and planning.
If you have ordered a course and paid immediately, you will receive an email with your login details. Sometimes, this email ends up in your spam folder. If you already have an existing account, simply log in to our learning environment. The course you just ordered will be visible in your account.
If you paid by invoice, you will receive your login credentials as soon as the invoice is paid. If the course is starting soon and you haven’t received your login details, please reach out to us at info@elevatehealth.eu to inquire about the payment status.
When you have completed all the assignments or have finished the exam with a good grade, you will receive an official certificate from Utrecht University. All academic certificates issued by Utrecht University will be sent by mail to the address registered in your account. Since these certificates are official documents, they cannot be sent by email.
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