Duration
8h Th, 8h Pr
Number of credits
| Bachelor in biomedicine | 2 crédits |
Lecturer
Language(s) of instruction
French language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the first semester, review in January
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
Course 1:
- Definition of the scientific method and subtypes
- History of the scientific method
Course 2:
- Scientific method steps
- How to formulate a research hypothesis ?
- Analyse scales
- Sampling
- Placebo and Hawthorne effects
- Positive and negative controls
- Internal standards
- Validity threats
- Measures quality
- Reproducibility
- Ethics
- Report writing
- Results presentation to various audience
- Objectivity versus subjectivity
- Quantitative versus qualitative
- Famous experiments : Miller - Mitchell - Roentgen
- Serendipity : penicillin - Viagra - thalidomide
- A laboratory experience
Practical part: Group work
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
- To give the basis to develop a reflexive practice related to the scientific method
- To develop a critical mind concerning the establishment of an experimental plan based on a research hypothesis
- To develop a synthesis mind
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning)
Face-to-face
Recommended or required readings
Assessment methods and criteria
First session work: Group work. Bibliographic search + writing of a scientific report + preparation of a summary of this report (ppt presentation and/or a video capsule) (analysis of synthesis skills) + review of a work (analysis of critical skills) and oral presentation. Each student will get an individual score related to its implication.
Second session work: Individual work. Bibliographic search and writing of a scientific report and/or written exam.
Work placement(s)
Organizational remarks
Contacts
Fanny Comblain, Ph.D.
Histology, Department of Biomedical and Preclinical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine
Quartier Hôpital
Avenue Hippocrate 15, B36 +4
4000 Liège, Belgium
Phone: +32 4 366 51 72
e-mail: fcomblain@uliege.be
Adaptation of teaching commitments following the COVID-19 pandemic for the May-June 2020 session
Teaching methods implemented : distance-learning
Assessment subjects
Assessment methods
Contacts
Adaptation of teaching commitments following the COVID-19 pandemic for the Aug-Sept 2020 session
Assessment subjects
Oral exam on the individual work. The student has to contact the teacher by e-mail (fcomblain@uliege.be) before July 15th 2020 in order to receive detailed guidelines.
Assessment methods
Individual work. Bibliographic search and writing of a scientific report. Presentation of that report during an oral exam using Collaborate.
Contacts
Fanny Comblain, Ph.D.
Histology, Department of Biomedical and Preclinical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine
Quartier Hôpital
Avenue Hippocrate 15, B36 +4
4000 Liège, Belgium
e-mail: fcomblain@uliege.be