Duration
10h Th, 10h Pr, 10h Pers. Res.
Number of credits
| Master in biomedicine (120 ECTS) | 4 crédits |
Lecturer
Coordinator
Language(s) of instruction
English language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the second semester
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
This course is dedicated to train students to critical reading of scientific and medical literature. Each class incudes both theoretical concepts and existing examples found in the literature. Attention will be particularly paid to explain "tips and tricks" to identify the main sources of errors and biases in scientific research. Therefore, this course includes sessions of applied exercises from both fundamental and clinical publications.
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
At the end of this course, students should be able to appropriately use conventional theoretical concepts of critical evaluation of experimental design and reports - in both basic science and clinical trials.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
This course is dedicated to medical and biomedical students with a strong background in normal cell biology and physiology.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
This course is mainly given ex cathedra, with additional references.
Journal-club sessions are organized at the end of the course, and implicate the active participation of the students.
In orange and red code (relative to the pandemic situation) those journal-clubs will be organized online through Collaborate sessions.
Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)
Face-to-face: this course is mainly given ex cathedra.
Distance-learning: the students are encouraged to read additional book chapters and reviews and to prepare in advance journal club sessions.
In orange and red code (relative to the pandemic situation) courses will be organized online through Collaborate sessions.
Recommended or required readings
Book chapters and up-to-date reviews are provided by each teacher at the beginning of each class.
Any session :
- In-person
written exam ( open-ended questions )
- Remote
written exam ( open-ended questions )
- If evaluation in "hybrid"
preferred in-person
Additional information:
The evaluation of this course is a written exam.
Depending on the sanitary context due to COVID-19, the written exam may be organized on-site (green or orange code) or online via eCampus (red code).
Work placement(s)
None
Organisational remarks and main changes to the course
The teachers are K. Durkin, J. Hanson and L. Delacroix
Contacts
Laurence DELACROIX : ldelacroix@uliege.be