Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety

Course goals

ALL PARTICIPANTS WILL BE PLACED ON THE WAITING LIST UNTIL TWO WEEKS BEFORE THE START OF THE COURSE

GRADUATE STUDENTS:
Please be aware that you can only select a course option that shows the academic year and is offered Face-to-Face (F2F)

POSTGRADUATE STUDENTS:
Please be aware that you can only select a course option that shows the academic year and is offered Face-to-Face (F2F)  or online (depending on your registration)

(FYI: the other options are options for Continuing Education (onderwijs voor professionals))


After this course, students are able to:

• study design issues in pharmacoepidemiology
• methods to adjust for confounding by indication
• methods in drug safety research
• drug safety and risk management
• overview of pharmacoepidemiological databases
• molecular pharmacoepidemiology
• drug utilization research

 

Content

Contact details: Educational Office Epidemiology
E-mail: msc-epidemiology@umcutrecht.nl

Registration:
Online: Online courses are only available for Epidemiology Postgraduate students and can register via Osiris Student. More information about the registration procedure can be found here on the Students' site.
Face-to-Face: You can register for this course via Osiris Student. More information about the registration procedure can be found here on the Students' site. Maximum of 10 participants and MSc Epidemiology students with the specialization Pharmacoepidemiology will be placed first.
Students from other faculties can register for this course via the UU summerschool.

Course coordinator:
F2f: Prof. dr. H. (Helga) Gardarsdottir, UU Utrecht, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Utrecht, the Netherlands
Online: Prof. dr. O.H. (Olaf) Klungel, UU Utrecht, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Utrecht, the Netherlands

Course description:
Will follow later.

Literature/study material used:
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Mandatory for students in own Master’s programme:
MIght be for a specialization programme of Epidemiology & Epidemiology Postgraduate
 
Optional for students in other GSLS Master’s programme:
No
 
Prerequisite knowledge:
Introduction to Epidemiology
Study Design in Etiologic Research
Clinical Epidemiology