Unit name | Pathological and Epidemiological Mechanisms of Disease |
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Unit code | VETS30022 |
Credit points | 20 |
Level of study | H/6 |
Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 1 (weeks 1 - 12) |
Unit director | Professor. Tarlton |
Open unit status | Not open |
Pre-requisites |
ANAT20303 as well as either PHYY20100 or PANM22041 & PANM22042 |
Co-requisites |
All other 4th year units |
School/department | Bristol Veterinary School |
Faculty | Faculty of Health Sciences |
Lectures and Seminars
Students will undertake a 3 hour paper (100%) to include two essay questions from a choice of four (2hrs) and also a data handling question (1 hr)
Students who fail to satisfy any of the above criteria will be deemed to have failed the whole unit.
Resit– as above
These will mostly be journal articles relevant to the teaching which are current at the time of delivery of the lectures.
Veterinary Epidemiology: An Introduction By Dirk Pfeiffer ISBN 1405176946, 9781405176941
http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/ One Health Initiative
http://www.one-health.eu/ee/index.php/en Animals + Humans = One Health
http://www.bristol.ac.uk/one-health/ 'One World, One Health, One Medicine' and 'One Health Journals and Special Issues' sections on the links page.
Veterinary Epidemiology, Third Edition, Michael Thrusfield ISBN-10: 0632063971; ISBN-13: 978-0632063970
Veterinary Epidemiologic Research - 2nd Edition, Ian Dohoo, Wayne Martin and Henrik Stryhn, featuring our very own Prof Bill Bowne in the chapter on Bayesian Stats. http://www.upei.ca/ver/
Handbook of Evidence-Based Veterinary Medicine, Peter Cockcroft & Mark Holmes, ISBN-10: 1405108908 | ISBN-13: 978-1405108904
Statistics for Veterinary and Animal Science, Aviva Petrie & Paul Watson, ISBN-10: 063205025X | ISBN-13: 978-0632050253