330092 UE Practise Nutritional Epidemiology (2013W)
Continuous assessment of course work
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Prior to the course students have to visit the lecture Nutritional Epidemiology (330072).
Registration/Deregistration
Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).
- Registration is open from Mo 16.09.2013 09:00 to Th 26.09.2013 12:00
- Deregistration possible until Mo 11.11.2013 12:00
Details
max. 50 participants
Language: German
Lecturers
Classes
Currently no class schedule is known.
Information
Aims, contents and method of the course
Using recently published studies students will learn to read papers in nutritional epidemiology critically and to discuss study design, results and conclusions. They will be instructed in approaching to given papers from different standpoints and will have to discuss their views orally. They also have to develop a study design for a given hypothesis, thus experiencing use and calculation of epidemiological estimates.
Assessment and permitted materials
Successful participation will be certified and graded after
(1) oral presentation and discussion of a recent publication,
(2) conclusive and founded answering of test questions,
(3) solving epidemiological problems and calculations.
(1) oral presentation and discussion of a recent publication,
(2) conclusive and founded answering of test questions,
(3) solving epidemiological problems and calculations.
Minimum requirements and assessment criteria
The seminar is dedicated to consolidate the knowledge presented in the lecture "Nutritional Epidemiology" and will enable students to become familiar with understanding and applying epidemiological methods in nutritional science and interpreting the results.
Examination topics
(1) Reading, evaluation, oral presentation (in German or English) and discussion of a recently published study in nutritional epidemiology,
(2) establishing a study design for a given nutritional problem, ways of data collection, evaluation and interpretation,
(3) answering and discussion of written questions,
(4) calculation of examples with epidemiological background.
(2) establishing a study design for a given nutritional problem, ways of data collection, evaluation and interpretation,
(3) answering and discussion of written questions,
(4) calculation of examples with epidemiological background.
Reading list
Jeweils aktuelle Publikationen aus ernährungswissenschaftlichen und epidemiologischen ZeitschriftenRecent scientific publications in nutritional and epidemiological journals
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Last modified: Mo 07.09.2020 15:44