{"id":122,"date":"2018-03-07T09:11:08","date_gmt":"2018-03-07T09:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/publichealth\/?p=122"},"modified":"2018-03-07T09:13:16","modified_gmt":"2018-03-07T09:13:16","slug":"module-focus-epidemiology-statistics-and-research-methods-15-02-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/publichealth\/2018\/03\/07\/module-focus-epidemiology-statistics-and-research-methods-15-02-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Module Focus: Epidemiology, Statistics and Research Methods (15.02.16)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-123\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/publichealth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2018\/03\/ESRM-Icon-300x168.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"264\" height=\"148\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/publichealth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2018\/03\/ESRM-Icon.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/publichealth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2018\/03\/ESRM-Icon-250x140.jpeg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 264px) 85vw, 264px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This year almost 150 participants registered for ESRM, a 50% increase on the previous year. Attendees were a mixture\u00a0of\u00a0students from 4 MSc courses, research students,\u00a0and\u00a0staff.<\/p>\n<p>The ESRM module covers two full weeks at the beginning of the MPH course and\u00a0can\u00a0be challenging due to the amount of information covered. Despite this,\u00a0students\u2019 feedback indicated that it was a well received and organized course. The small group teaching sessions for the module were one aspect\u00a0that the students particularly favored, in that they reported that the \u201csmall group discussions gave a chance to apply the learning from the previous day to real examples of published work\u201d.\u00a0In addition, this year for the first time all lecture notes, exercises and papers formed a booklet for the module which the students liked and appreciated.<\/p>\n<p>This\u00a0year was also the first time\u00a0the epidemiology material was taught before the majority\u00a0of\u00a0the statistics lectures. This enabled stats lecturers to more freely discuss methods in the context\u00a0of\u00a0different epidemiological study designs\u00a0and\u00a0students found this beneficial.<\/p>\n<p>With regards to future improvements, feedback has indicated that many students found the STATA sessions challenging. In light\u00a0of\u00a0this, next academic year an introductory STATA video will be made available before the ESRM module begins\u00a0and\u00a0pre-recorded walkthroughs\u00a0of\u00a0each\u00a0of\u00a0the STATA practical\u2019s will be posted on CANVAS.\u2019 Some of the other ESRM\u00a0lectures will also be pre-recorded so that students will be able to listen to them again at a later date to clear up any misunderstandings and help with exam revision for the course.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Written by Claire Frobisher, Module Coordinator for Epidemiology and Malcolm Price, Module Coordinator for Statistics\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year almost 150 participants registered for ESRM, a 50% increase on the previous year. Attendees were a mixture\u00a0of\u00a0students from 4 MSc courses, research students,\u00a0and\u00a0staff. The ESRM module covers two full weeks at the beginning of the MPH course and\u00a0can\u00a0be challenging due to the amount of information covered. Despite this,\u00a0students\u2019 feedback indicated that it was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/publichealth\/2018\/03\/07\/module-focus-epidemiology-statistics-and-research-methods-15-02-16\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Module Focus: Epidemiology, Statistics and Research Methods (15.02.16)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":223,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/publichealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/publichealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/publichealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/publichealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/223"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/publichealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/publichealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/publichealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions\/126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/publichealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/publichealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/publichealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}