Scientific Research and Communication

Code:

IM2014_04

Acronym:

ICC

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Medical Informatics

Instance: 2020/2021 - 1S (of 01-09-2020 to 05-02-2021)

Active?	Yes
Web Page:	https://moodle.up.pt/course/view.php?id=3228
Responsible unit:	Department of Community Medicine, Information and Health Decision Sciences
Course/CS Responsible:	Master Programme in Medical Informatics

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
MIM	22	Current Studies Plan	1	-	6	55	162

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

Provide the students with knowledge and skills in the design, production and dissemination of scientific research in medical informatics

Learning outcomes and competences

Skills
- Define and plan research studies in medical informatics;
- Find information on electronic databases of biomedical knowledge;
- Write and submit for review, original and review scientific articles;
- Produce scientific oral presentations and posters;
- Produce and describe descriptive statistic data analyses and statistical inference.

Knowledge
- Research protocols in medical informatics;
- Form and content of original scientific articles;
- Specific characteristics of scientific review articles;
- Communication strategies of scientific papers;
- Probability, descriptive statistics, statistical inference and modelling.

Behaviors
- Keep track of developments in knowledge of medical informatics;
- Improving critical thinking in writing and interpretation of reports of scientific research;
- Motivation to question and discuss published or in progress research work;
- Promote a critical data analysis.

Working method

Presencial

Program

Phases of an investigation and protocol definition
Study Design
Bibliographic search
Writing scientific papers
Online submission and peer review
Review articles
Scientific communication
Data management, data types and data verification
Introduction to probability
Frequency and association measures
Descriptive statistics, building and interpreting tables and graphics
Principles of statistical inference (standard error, confidence interval, hypothesis testing)
Sample representativenes, precision of results, test power
Measures for meta-analysis

Mandatory literature

Fathalla, M., & Fathalla, M; A practical guide for health researchers. World Health Organization, 2004
Gopen, G. D., & Swan, J. A; The Science of Scientific Writing. American Scientist, 78, 550–558, 1977
ICMJE; Uniform requirements for manuscripts submitted to biomedical journals: Writing and editing for biomedical publication. International Committee of Medical Journal Editors., 2010
Liu, J. L. Y., & Wyatt, J. C. ; The case for randomized controlled trials to assess the impact of clinical information systems. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA, 18(2), 173–80, 2011
Miller, R., & Gardner, R.; Recommendations for responsible monitoring and regulation of clinical software systems. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 4, 442–457, 1997
Pai, M., McCulloch, M., Gorman, J. D., Pai, N., Enanoria, W., Kennedy, G., Tharyan, P., et al. ; Systematic reviews and meta-analyses: an illustrated, step-by-step guide. National , 2004
A. Petrie and C. Sabin; Medical statistics at a glance, Blackwell, 2009

Teaching methods and learning activities

Lectures with presentation and discussion of topics, group exercises and individual interpretation and evaluation of scientific papers, literature and protocol writing.

Software

SPSS e/ou JAMOVI

keywords

Physical sciences > Mathematics > Statistics

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Teste	60,00
Trabalho escrito	40,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo	23,00
Frequência das aulas	28,00
Trabalho escrito	30,00
Total:	81,00

Eligibility for exams

Attendance to a minimum of 2/3 of the lectures + at least grade 10 on each evaluation component (exam/tests, group assignment, individual assignment)

Calculation formula of final grade

Theoretical examination (60%), discussion of scientific articles(20% and a practical data analysis assignment (20%).

FG = (exam or tests) * 0.4 + paper * 0.2 + protocol * 0.2