LEARNING OUTCOMES
On successful completion of the course students will have acquired all the basic concepts of research methodology in the field of health sciences. Hence, they will be equiped to plan clinical and epidemiological studies and write and submit scientific papers to international journals.
In particular, they will be able to:
• Understand the methodology of analysis in matters of medical research and clinical practice
• Participate in all phases of a research protocol applying modern laboratory techniques and disseminate the results
• Write scientific articles and communicate them to both specialist and non-specialist audiences
• Describe basic approaches to qualitative research. These methodologies include, but are not limited to, case studies, indepth interviews and focus groups.
• Identify and critique articles based on different research methods
• Construct a questionnaire relying on several types of questions
SYLLABUS
Theory
The course is designed for a set of 13 weeks of lectures. The topics that will be discussed are the following
- Introduction to Research in Health Sciences
- Principles in Data Analysis
- Questionnaire Design
- Sampling
- Prevalence Studies, Prospective – Cohort Studies
- Reprospective – Case Control Studies
- Clinical Trials
- Relative Risk
- Odds Ratio
- Meta-Analysis
- Data bases in the area of health sciences (Pubmed, Scopus, etc)
- Publication Indexes
- Review