UMH - RESEARCH SKILLS IN INFECTIOUS DISEASES AND INTERNATIONAL HEALTH

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RESEARCH SKILLS IN INFECTIOUS DISEASES AND INTERNATIONAL HEALTH

Course

Code: 2659

Degree: Master's in Infectious Diseases and International Health

Faculty of Medicine

Year: Year 1 of Master's in Infectious Diseases and International Health

Semester: Fall

Type: Required

Language: Spanish

ECTS credits: 4.5

Lecture: 4.5

Laboratory: 0

Hours: 112.5

Directed: 45

Shared: 42

Autonomous: 25.5

Subject matter: Research Skills Applied in Infectious Diseases and International Health

Course instructors are responsible for the course content descriptions in English.

Description

Knowledge and skills to critically assess and know how to use technologies and sources of information in public health, clinical medicine, and biomedicine in order to obtain, organize, interpret, and communicate clinical, epidemiological, scientific, and health information. Research methodology skills in infectious diseases and international health.

Faculty

Name	Coordinator	Lecture	Laboratory
LUMBRERAS LACARRA, BLANCA JUANA	■	■	■
MASIA CANUTO, MARIA DEL MAR		■	■
GUTIERREZ RODERO, FELIX		■	■
PERDIGUERO GIL, ENRIQUE		■	■

Professional interest

Basic skills are provided for the development of research in the field of the master.

Competencies and learning outcomes

General competencies

Be able to make proposals about the design and development of research projects in the field of infectious diseases and international health.
Be able to critically analyze, evaluate, and synthesize new and complex ideas in infectious diseases and international health.
Know how to communicate with peers, the academic community as a whole, and society in general about infectious diseases and international health.
Capability of promoting, within academic and professional contexts, technological, social, or cultural advancement in the field of infectious diseases and international health within a knowledge-based society.

Specific competencies

Acquire the capacity to use tools of epidemiology and public health related to infectious diseases and international health.
Acquire the capacity to access high-level scientific literature, databases, documentary sources, and information existing about infectious diseases and international health.

Objectives (Learning outcomes)

Adquirir coneixements i habilitats per a valorar críticament i saber utilitzar les tecnologies i fonts d'informació de salut pública, medicina clínica i biomedicina, per a obtindre, organitzar, interpretar i comunicar informació clínica, epidemiològica, científica i sanitària
To acquire skills in research methodology Infectious Diseases and International Health.

Teaching units

Basic bibliography

Complementary bibliography

Software

SPSS 21

Methodology and grading

Methodology

Case studies: Learning through the analysis of actual or simulated cases in order to interpret and resolve them by employing various alternative solution procedures.
Lecture: Pass on knowledge and activate cognitive processes in students, encouraging their participation.
Problem-based learning: Develop active learning strategies through problem solving that promote thinking, experimentation, and decision making in the student.
Project-based learning: Realization of a project to solve a problem, applying acquired learning and promoting abilities related to planning, design, performing activities, and reaching conclusions.
Solving exercises and problems: Exercise, test, and apply previous knowledge through routine repetition.

Grading

The evaluation of the subject will have:

- Exercises to solve cases related to the activity developed in the subject, as it is exposed in non-classroom teaching: 80% of the final grade.

- Participation in the forum to discuss the presented topic: 20% of the final grade.

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