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, hybrid learning)
Theorical part online through Collaborate
Practical part in face-to-face or online according to the evolution of the sanitary crisis
Organisational adjustments related to the current health context
Yellow code : oral presentation on site (CHU Sart Tilman)
Orange code : oral presentation online through Collaborate
No exam in January 2021
Recommended or required readings
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
oral exam
- Remote
written work
- If evaluation in "hybrid"
preferred remote
Additional information:
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