Additional Courses

This course provides an introduction to ethics and scientific integrity in health sciences research. Participants will learn about the history and principles of ethics of clinical and public health research, and about issues in the area of scientific integrity such as conflict of interest, authorship and research misconduct. The course further covers selected relevant topics such as the Swiss human research law, research regulation and fair utilization of research resources including push towards open science.

This course is about the processes of writing and getting published. Students will bring an article that they are actually working on for a truly hands-on experience.

The Bayesian approach to medical research offers a powerful framework allowing for the incorporation of externally available information. Although Bayesian statistics is sometimes perceived and discussed as controversial, this course is not about controversies, but about pragmatic ways of integrating available information in a coherent way in analyses of epidemiological and clinical studies. The course builds on a principled probabilistic approach and applied problems and exercises. It is aimed at epidemiologists, statisticians and others who wish to use Bayesian approaches. Participants should have a good understanding of basic statistical and epidemiological principles and be able to interpret parameters and results from standard data analyses.