Real-world data (Module 4 of CAS ETH DCT)

This description is only available in English.

  • 20.02–20.03.2025

    Course dates

  • 5 days

    Duration
  • Zurich, online

    Location
  • English
    Course language
  • 16.02.2025

    Registration end

  • CHF 3,000

    Course fee

Course description

The course provides an overview of the importance of Real-World Data (RWD), different RWD sources, and how RWD can be exploited in healthcare, clinical and personalised health research, as well as in regulatory decision making. It highlights current trends and existing methods for using and analysing RWD.

Date and venue

Course date

20.02–20.03.2025, 5 days

Course dates:
20.02.2025, ETH Zurich, CHN G 46
27.02.2025, online
06.03.2025, ETH Zurich, CHN G 46
13.03.2025, ETH Zurich, CHN G 46
20.03.2025, online

Course location

ETH Zurich and online

Fees

Course fee

CHF 3,000
Employees of ETH Zurich: CH 1,800

Registration

Registration deadline

16.02.2025

Organiser

Course management

Dr Sabine Goldhahn, MD, Programme Manager of the MAS ETH digital Clinical Research at the Institute of Food, Nutrition and Health, ETH Zurich

Lecturers

  • Dr Katrin Crameri, MPH, Co-Lead DigiSanté program of the Federal Department of Home Affairs and Co-Lead Digital Transformation Division, Federal Office of Public Health FOPH
  • Professor Catherine Jutzeler, Institute for Translational Medicine, Professor for Biomedical Data Sciences, D-HEST, ETH Zurich
  • Dr Sabine Österle, Teamlead Data Interoperability, PHI, SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Basel
  • Patrick Hirschi, Team Lead Engineering - Clinical Data Platform for Research, University Hospital Zurich
  • other RWD experts


 

Contact

Dr Sabine Goldhahn
ETH Zurich, Nutrition and Health
  • +41 44 655 72 92

Leopold-Ruzicka-Weg 4
HCP 23.1
8093 Zurich

Responsible body

ETH Zurich, D-HEST

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Target group

The course is designed for physicians, health care providers, and professionals in start-ups, MedTech and pharma companies, in academia, in clinical research organisations, and patient organisations.

Course language(s)

English

Additional information

Course content

  • Overview on different RWD types, source systems of RWD, RWD availability, and challenges related to the use of RWD
  • Challenges of RWD; Clinical Data Platforms
  • Routine clinical data: Prerequisites for working with health data.
  • From data to value: Deep dive in RWD interoperability aspects and semantics; Data models, data standards, ontologies, classifications and Terminologies; FAIR data.
  • RWD in Switzerland and abroad.
  • Practical exercise with mock datasets 

The course includes input lectures and workshops, remote preparation, and blended learning. Complimentary learning material is provided online.

The course is approved by SIWF. Swiss doctors who complete this module will receive 25 credits toward their non-specific continuing education requirements.

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