Duration
10h Th, 10h Mon. WS
Number of credits
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, hybrid learning)
Face-to-face and/or distance learning and flipped classroom
Organisational adjustments related to the current health context
Recommended or required readings
Lecture notes will be available via myULiège
Assessment methods and criteria
Below you will find information on the evaluation methods planned for in-person and remote exams as well as those planned for hybrid sessions. Depending on how the health crisis evolves, the chosen method will be communicated to you no later than one month before the start of the exam session.
Any session :
- In-person
written exam ( open-ended questions )
- Remote
written exam
- If evaluation in "hybrid"
preferred remote
Additional information:
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