Pharmacoepidemiology: Drug Exposure Definitions and Study Design Approaches in Register-Based Data

Third-cycle level | 1.5 credits (HEC) | Course code: K2F6033
VT 2025
Study period: 2025-02-17 - 2025-02-21
LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION: The course is given in English
Application period: 2024-10-15 - 2024-11-05
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Course description

The purpose of this course is to introduce the students to:
1) methods and publicly available data for drug utilization studies, and
2) issues typically encountered in pharmacoepidemiology, specifically exposure misclassification and confounding by indication.

 

Prerequisites and Selection

Prerequisite courses, or equivalent

Knowledge corresponding to the intended learning outcomes of the KI doctoral courses Epidemiology I: Introduction to Epidemiology and Biostatistics I: Introduction for epidemiologists.

Selection

Selection will be based on:  
1) the relevance of the course syllabus for the applicant’s doctoral project (according to written motivation). 
2) start date of doctoral studies (priority given to earlier start date). 

Course director

Carolyn Cesta, carolyn.cesta@ki.se

Course syllabus

K2F6033

Department

Department of Medicine, Solna

Doctoral programme

Epidemiology

Type of course

**Other course

Keywords

Pharmacoepidemiology

CONTACTCarolyn Cesta

carolyn.cesta@ki.se