Last modified: 23 Jul 2024 10:58
This course reviews a range of essential methodologies that are currently used in medical research from molecular technologies to human studies. Experts in the various techniques will describe the fundamentals of the methodology and show how they can be applied.
| Study Type | Postgraduate | Level | 5 |
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| Term | Second Term | Credit Points | 15 credits (7.5 ECTS credits) |
| Campus | Aberdeen | Sustained Study | No |
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The course aims to provide a basic understanding of state of the art technology used in Clinical Pharmacology and Drug Discovery research. It will introduce the key aspects involved in designing a research project, the fundamentals of a range of currently used technologies and an introduction to basic epidemiology. Students will have the opportunity to experience how some of these basic research methods can be applied to clinical diagnoses and inform patient management.
Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 12 | |
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| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 35 | |
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| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 25 | |
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| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 13 | |
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| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 15 | |
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There are no assessments for this course.
| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
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| Procedural | Analyse | present scientific data in a rationale way |
| Factual | Evaluate | interpret and evaluate research data |
| Procedural | Evaluate | Judge relevance of results, perform clinical diagnoses and patient management based on application of research methods and published literature. |
| Conceptual | Evaluate | Evaluate research methods and technologies used by other research scientists. Determine relevance of results. |
| Conceptual | Understand | Understand and summarize fundamentals of a range technologies and methodologies |
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