Code: | MO03 | Acronym: | EPID |
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Classification | Keyword |
OFICIAL | Health Sciences |
Active? | Yes |
Responsible unit: | Population Studies |
Course/CS Responsible: | Master Degree in Oncology |
Acronym | No. of Students | Study Plan | Curricular Years | Credits UCN | Credits ECTS | Contact hours | Total Time |
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MO | 21 | Oficial Plan 2018 | 1 | - | 3 | 23 | 81 |
Knowledge – at the end of the course students will be able to: Describe the main epidemiological patterns of cancer in Portugal and in the world; Identify nutritional determinants of cancer; Describe the different types of epidemiological studies, namely observational, analytic and experimental; Explain the difference between association and causality; Describe the uses of epidemiology in planning interventions in oncology;
Skills - at the end of the course students will be able to: Calculate measures of frequency and measures of association; Read and interpret published epidemiological studies (validity and implications for public health practice in the area of oncology);
Attitudes - at the end of the course students will: Be sceptical of statements based only on opinion, and demand epidemiological evidence for those statements; Advocate the importance of surveillance systems like cancer registries and the need for cooperation from health professionals in such systems.
Lectures, exercises, group discussions and journal clubs.
Designation | Weight (%) |
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Apresentação/discussão de um trabalho científico | 40,00 |
Teste | 60,00 |
Total: | 100,00 |
Designation | Time (hours) |
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Estudo autónomo | 63,00 |
Frequência das aulas | 17,50 |
Total: | 80,50 |
Though teaching activities “in attendance”are considered desirable, we are prepared to rapidly change into online teaching and assessment strategies, as it happened in the academic year 2019/2020. If that change occurs, the final exam (Época Normal) will be cancelled and an additional individual and work group activities will be carried on and assessed (0-12); the second (Época de Recurso) will be just cancelled. This corresponds to the formal change into “avaliação continuada sem exame final”.