Duration
10h Th, 10h Mon. WS
Number of credits
| Master in public health (120 ECTS) | 3 crédits | |||
| Specialised master in health care data management | 5 crédits | |||
| Master in psychology (120 ECTS) | 2 crédits |
Lecturer
Coordinator
Language(s) of instruction
French language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the second semester
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
Introduction
Drugs development (Phases I, II, III, IV)
Clinical trial methodology
- Characteristics of a protocol
- Particular clinical trial
- Informed consent
- Clinical trial analysis
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
Clinical trials
Research in the medical field is organized most often through clinical and therapeutic trials. These trials belong to the particular branch of interventional epidemiology of the experimental type. The objectives of the course are defined for integrating the practice of clinical trials into a team of experts:
1. To acquire the basics to perform clinical trials.
2. Raise awareness of the use of multidisciplinary dialogue to acquire contextual knowledge.
Evidence Based Medicine
Taxonomy of scientific evidence, effect estimators, clinical trial results analysis methodology and predictive power will be studied and documented by pragmatic examples.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning)
Face-to-face and flipped classroom
Recommended or required readings
Lecture notes will be available via myULiège
Assessment methods and criteria
Written exam
Work placement(s)
Organizational remarks
For the examination procedures, please refer to the official rules available on the University website.
Contacts
Please, use only your ULiege email address (XXX@student.uliege.be) for any exchange of mails and specify in the subject line of your email the course code (EPID0006).
Professor Olivier Bruyère
Department of Public Health, Epidemiology and Health Economics
CHU Sart Tilman, Bât B23
4000 Liège
Tel.: +32 (0)4 366 25 81
Fax: +32 (0)4 366 28 12
E-mail: olivier.bruyere@uliege.be
Adaptation of teaching commitments following the COVID-19 pandemic for the May-June 2020 session
Teaching methods implemented : distance-learning
Distance learning: part of the material was given before confinement, the rest is given in the form of a commented PowerPoint or a Podcast with, in addition, the opening of a discussion forum.
Assessment subjects
No change
Assessment methods
Open questions online
Contacts
olivier.bruyere@uliege.be
Adaptation of teaching commitments following the COVID-19 pandemic for the Aug-Sept 2020 session
Assessment subjects
No changes
Assessment methods
Open questions on e-campus
Contacts
olivier.bruyere@uliege.be