You can collect and generate relevant and functional biomedical knowledge concerning problems of health and disease based on scientific research:
- You are able to explain how the process of scientific thinking works.
- You are able to formulate a research question and articulate how this question can be empirically examined.
- You can describe various methods for collecting data in humans.
- You know how to find relevant literature and use this to write a summary with references.
- You can describe and use measures of disease frequency and measures of association.
- You know how to design, execute and interpret patient- and population based studies concerning diagnoses, etiology, prevention, prognosis and medical interventions.
- You can design a study on pregnancy outcome.
- You can distinguish different sources of bias in population research and can reflect upon causality.
- You can adequately describe and interpret the results from a study in numbers and graphs (descriptive statistics).
- You can quantify the amount of uncertainty present in results from an empirical study and/or draw valid conclusions about hypotheses (inferential statistics).
- You can use the program SPSS to do statistical analyses by yourself.
- You can use models to study simple dynamic biomedical processes.
- You can use a computer program to model the behaviour of dynamic systems and predict the time course of epidemic outbreaks.
- You can understand what scientific integrity is about and employ, in your own research as a student, the basic principles of scientific integrity relevant in biomedical research.
- You can write a short research report concerning cancer or diabetes etiology.
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The minor Biomedical Research Methods is specifically designed for premaster students of Biomedical Sciences. In this minor students will learn most of the research content that regular BMS bachelor students learned during their first 1,5 years of study. It is about human-based research in populations. Research methods and practice starting from formulating a research question to reporting about results will be taught, including finding literature, data collection methods, study designs, sources of bias, and statistical analyses. Besides epidemiology and statistics, ethical concerns in scientific research will be discussed and students will learn to build and use models to study dynamic biomedical processes and to make predictions based on these models. Students will get practical experience with the program SPSS in this minor and will actively work on the design of a study for pregnancy outcomes and on analyzing data to explore causal factors for bladder cancer or diabetes mellitus.
Key words:
Epidemiology, Statistics, Ethics, Models in research, Data analyses. |
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