LECTURE (15 hours)

1. History, definitions - 1 hour

2. Types of research - 1 hour

3. Designing a research study - 2 hours

4. Components of a scientific paper - 2 hours

5. Cross-sectional studies, incidence, prevalence - 1 hour

6. Organisation of observational studies. The case-control study. Target population, accessible population, study population - 2 hours

7. Organisation of cohort studies. Prospective cohorts and retrospective cohorts - 2 hours

8. Exploitation of research results - 1 hour 

9. Ethics of scientific research - 2 hours

10. Systematic errors in medical studies - 1 hour

Practical works (15 hours)

1. Writing a scientific paper (structure of an original article) - 2 hours

2. Principles of using data processing and representation systems - 2 hours

3. Methods of documentation and citation in research - 1 hour

4. Identification of objectives in case-control and cohort studies and identification of dependent and independent variables - 2 hours

5. Randomisation, blind work, use of questionnaires - 2 hours

6. Clinical trials, specific trial staging, therapeutic trial - 2 hours

7. Analysis of data obtained from a research study, Odds Ratio, Relative Risk, other indicators - 2 hours

8. Organisation of cohort studies. Prospective cohorts and retrospective cohorts - 2 hours

Head of Department,

Prof. PhD L. Mogoantă

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