Teaching sessions typically comprise pre-recorded presentations and exercises. You will experience a range of learning approaches including the virtual and flipped classroom, problem-based group work, recorded lectures, case studies, research papers and threaded discussion boards. You will benefit from the global health research and teaching expertise within LSTM.

There are 180 learning hours associated with this 12 week online part time programme - broken down as follows:

• 12 hours of online resources including recorded lectures
• 12 seminar hours of threaded discussion boards, chat rooms and blogs
• 1 hour tutorial - one-to-one discussion with personal tutor via email or skype
• 43 'laboratory' hours of working with large datasets (computer based)
• 50 hours working on assessments
• 62 independent study hours

Outline

• Introduction to the programme and scientific methods in epidemiology and statistics
• Ethics
• Descriptive statistics and secondary analysis of routine data
• Data computation and analysis
• Epidemiology and Statistics to inform global health policy
• Critical appraisal of epidemiology and statistics research
• Monitoring and evaluation
• Working with large data sets
• Policy analysis and interpretation
• Systematic review skills and interpretation and application of evidence to health policy and practice.

20 Academic Credits - Assessments

Please see attached specification for assessment information.  Assessments are optional but advise all students to take the assessments to cement their learning and to earn highly transferrable credits.

For an additional fee of £95, you can be entered for full Academic Credits for this course (Masters level credit). The academic credits are offered to provide choice and flexibility to all of our students and students who do not wish to do the assessments will be awarded a Certificate of Attendance. Applicants wishing to find out more about the assessment should contact MyLSTM@lstmed.ac.uk(link sends e-mail).