COURSE UNIT TITLE

: CRITICAL APPRAISAL SKILLS

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
ELECTIVE

Offered By

Medicine

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR BELGIN ÜNAL

Offered to

Medicine

Course Objective

The aim of this module is to acquire students the necessary skills for searching the scientific literature and critically reading the scientific papers by using checklists adopted from international guidelines.
At the end of this module student will be able to identify different study designs, evaluate the methods of obervational studies for strengths and weaknesses, understand how to chose the statistical tests for data analysis and interpret the results of the studies.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Searching the scientific literature
2   Learning observational study designs
3   Learning the limitation of the study designs
4   Reading the articles critically using internationaly developed checklists

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction of SSMs (Special Study Modules)
2 Basic concepts of scientific reasearch
3 Health data, information and information management
4 Search engines (S + U)
5 Types of scientific article
6 Research types
7 Basic Concepts of Biostatistics
8 Cross sectional study design
9 Case-control studies
10 Cohort studies
11 Clinical trials
12 Research, technology and publication ethics
13 Sampling methods
14 Hypothesis tests
15 Critical appraisal
16 Biosafety I
17 Biosafety II
18 Introduction of Critical Appraisal SSM

Recomended or Required Reading

1. Özdamar K.SPSS ile Biyoistatistik. Kaan Kitabevi, Eskişehir, 2003.
2. Aksakoğlu G. Sağlıkta araştırma teknikleri ve analiz yöntemleri. DEÜ Rektörlük Matbaası, Izmir 2001.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lectures
Practical work on PC
Small group work with the advisor

Assessment Methods

Successful / Unsuccessful


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

In order to pass the critical appraisal skills SSM
1- Students need to attend 70% of the lectures and small group activities with the advisor.
2- Students need answer correctly half of the questions in the final test exam.

Assessment Criteria

At the end of the module students will given a test that includes questions from the theoretical lectures and critical appraisal methods used in the 3 practicals. In order to pass students need to answer half of the questions correctly.
Students fail, if they can not answer corretly half of the questions in the exam or do not participate 70% of the activities in the SSM.
If the students fail then they need to repeat for the exam.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

Special Study Modules Application Principles

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Belgin Ünal
e-mail: belgin.unal@deu.edu.tr
Phone:00 90 232 4124009

Office Hours

It is indicated in the program.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Applying activity 4 2 8
Lectures 18 1 18
Preparation for final exam 1 4 4
Block-end exam 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 32

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13PO.14
LO.1542322
LO.252
LO.35
LO.45

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