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Course: 2025/2026

Epidemiology
(20007)
Bachelor in Biomedical Sciences (Plan: 551 - Estudio: 504)


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Type: Compulsory
ECTS Credits: 6.0 ECTS

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Learning Outcomes
K1: Evaluates the information obtained using a critical sense and establishes working hypotheses. K2: It gathers knowledge in various aspects necessary for the development of professional activities. K7: It recognises micro-organisms as the aetiological agents capable of producing pathologies in humans. S1: It uses different techniques to find, manage and integrate available digital information. S2: Prepares reports to effectively communicate project knowledge, objectives and results to specialised and non-specialised audiences. S3: It handles the basic tools that allow the analysis of experimental and structural data in the different areas of biomedicine. S6: Applies epidemiological principles to estimate the frequency and distribution of health-related phenomena. S11: Develops work skills and interpersonal relations in a work environment, using information and communication tools and techniques for data analysis and the elaboration of oral and written reports, public presentations and other training and professional activities. S12: Appropriately uses the scientific and technical vocabulary of the different fields of biomedicine and the scientific method to analyse data and design experimental strategies. C1: Participates in the activities of integrated scientific working groups C2: Use the knowledge acquired for conflict resolution, learning, teamwork and negotiation processes. C3: Accepts the role of the student as a professional learner fostering university civic co-existence C4: Demuestra un comportamiento profesional adecuado, identificando los grandes principios bioéticos.
Description of contents: programme
1. Introduction. Concepts and applications of epidemiology. 2. Sources of data in epidemiology. Demography and health. Morbidity and mortality. 3. Descriptive epidemiology. Ecological studies. Standardisation of rates. Measures of association 4. Analytical epidemiology. Cohort studies, cross-sectional studies, clinical trials and intervention trials. Statistical significance. 5. Selection, information and confounding biases. 6. Social epidemiology, public health. Epidemiological surveillance and disease control. 7. Early detection of diseases. Evaluation of new diagnostic, therapeutic, preventive and prognostic procedures. 8. Genetic epidemiology and molecular epidemiology. Introduction to Environmental Epidemiology
Learning activities and methodology
CLASSROOM LECTURES FACE-TO-FACE CLASSES: REDUCED (WORKSHOPS, SEMINARS, CASE STUDIES) STUDENT INDIVIDUAL WORK FINAL EXAM SEMINARS AND LECTURES SUPPORTED BY COMPUTER AND AUDIOVISUAL AIDS. PRACTICAL LEARNING BASED ON CASES AND PROBLEMS, AND EXERCISE RESOLUTION. INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP OR COOPERATIVE WORK WITH THE OPTION OF ORAL OR WRITTEN PRESENTATION. INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP TUTORIALS TO RESOLVE DOUBTS AND QUERIES ABOUT THE SUBJECT.
Assessment System
  • % end-of-term-examination/test 60
  • % of continuous assessment (assigments, laboratory, practicals...) 40




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The course syllabus may change due academic events or other reasons.