Biomedical Research
Description: Basic principles of evidence-based medicine. Methods of biomedical research. Descriptive research methods. Analytical epidemiological studies. Experimental studies. Planning and conducting randomized controlled trials (RCTs). Errors in biomedical research. Systematic review and meta-analysis. Selected questions of biostatistics: analysis of quantitative and qualitative data.
Amount of credits: 6
Пререквизиты:
- Medical Devices, Systems and Components
Course Workload:
| Types of classes | hours |
|---|---|
| Lectures | 30 |
| Practical works | 30 |
| Laboratory works | |
| SAWTG (Student Autonomous Work under Teacher Guidance) | 30 |
| SAW (Student autonomous work) | 90 |
| Form of final control | Exam |
| Final assessment method |
Component: Component by selection
Cycle: Profiling disciplines
Goal
- The purpose of studying the discipline "Biomedical research" is to form students' readiness for research activities and acquire knowledge of methodology, principles and methods of conducting scientific research.
Objective
- Tasks: - study of the methodological foundations and methods of organizing scientific research, mastering the categorical concepts of biomedical research, both fundamental and applied; - obtaining knowledge about the forms, methods and means of scientific work, the principles of the organization of research activities; - obtaining knowledge in the field of scientific research planning, data collection organization, data description and statistical processing using computer programs; - mastering the skills of choosing research methods, methods of scientific search and analysis of scientific results, - mastering the skill of conducting research, interpreting and presenting its results; - mastering biostatistics as a tool of evidence-based medicine.
Learning outcome: knowledge and understanding
- To know: - about biomedical research as the basis of evidence-based medicine; - algorithms for planning and performing scientific research; - about the goals and objectives of the descriptive stage of biomedical research, types of data, methodology for compiling databases for the accumulation of research data and their further use; - methodology for determining the sample size; - methods of hypothesizing risk factors; - forms and methods of scientific research; - methods for evaluating hypotheses; - methods of biostatistics; - the significance and possibilities of systematic reviews and meta-analysis as tools of evidence-based medicine; - advantages and disadvantages of meta-analysis; - systematic approaches to the presentation of the results of scientific research.
Learning outcome: applying knowledge and understanding
- Be able to: - skills of independent choice, planning, justification of the purpose of scientific research; - creation, maintenance and analysis of the research database; - to adequately evaluate the published results of scientific research; - apply knowledge of the methodology of systematic review and meta-analysis in the critical analysis of scientific literature; - evaluate and interpret the results of a systematic review and meta-analysis; - possess tools for presenting the results of scientific research.
