Individual Project

Code:

PDSP12_4

Acronym:

PDSP12_4

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Public Health

Instance: 2022/2023 - A

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Public Health and Forensic Sciences, and Medical Education Department
Course/CS Responsible:	Doctoral Programme in Public Health

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
PDSP	9	Current Studies Plan	1	-	8	36	216

Teaching language

Portuguese and english

Objectives

The students should prepare a structure document which includes the justification, aims and methods proposed to the development of the PhD theses. Students should know how to identify the research questions and be able to justify and to plan the research project namely adequating the methods to the objectives.

Learning outcomes and competences

The syllabus covers essential tools to plan and develop an epidemiologic research. It includes also the application of those knowledge and skills in examples of diverse scenarios, chosen by their frequency and severity, as well as taking into account the different methodological problems they raise.

Working method

Presencial

Program

How to identify the research question.

Phases of the research development.

To adequate the designs to research questions.

Sample size estimation.

Ethics limitations.

How to identify the financial resources.

How to develop research protocols.

Mandatory literature

Day, R.A. & Gastel, B.;; How to write and publish a scientific paper. (8th edition), Greenwood,USA, 2016
Betty R. Kirkwood and Jonathan A. C. Sterne. ; Essential Medical Statistics, 2nd Edition, Blackwell Science Publishing 2003.

Teaching methods and learning activities

The curricular unit has 8 ECTS, corresponding to a toral of 216 hours of work by the student; out of these 36h are of contact (16h of theoretico-practical sessions and 20h of tutorial supervision).

The learning assessment will consist in the development of a written research protocol in two phases: 1st phase - writing a research protocol in group (40%) and 2nd phase - writing the individual theses protocol (30%) and the correspondent public presentation and discussion (30%).

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Apresentação/discussão de um trabalho científico	30,00
Trabalho prático ou de projeto	70,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Apresentação/discussão de um trabalho científico	8,00
Elaboração de projeto	28,00
Estudo autónomo	180,00
Total:	216,00

Eligibility for exams

Obtaining frequency implies assistance to 75% of the theoretical-practical tutorial supervision sessions

Calculation formula of final grade

The learning assessment will consist in the development of a written research protocol in two phases: 1st phase - writing a research protocol in group (40%) and 2nd phase - writing the individual theses protocol (30%) and the correspondent public presentation and discussion (30%).

Classification improvement

Since the Unit assessment is continuous without a final exam, the possibility of improving the classification is only possible in the following academic year.