Methodology of research

Lecturer:

Adéla Grünes, Karel Roubík (gar.)

Tutor:

Adéla Grünes, Karel Roubík (gar.)

Supervisor:

Department of Biomedical Technology

Synopsis:

Science, character of scientific work and its goals. Basic terminology (hypothesis, rule of law, theory, model). Information portfolio, information searching using information technologies. Experiments in medicine. Measurement process and its evaluation. Use of methods of sociology and psychology. Project proposal, structure of scientific work, defence of scientific work. Searching on internet, in library catalogues, and in bibliographic systems. Philosophical aspects of scientific work.

Requirements:

Final evaluation will be based on a written test. The standard valid evaluation scale will be used. The test will consist of 5 to 10 questions, each question will be assessed with 1 or 0 points.

The admission to the final evaluation test will be allowed solely to the students who prepare all the training materials from the scientific writing according to instructions given by the lecturer throughout the course of the subject lectures.

Syllabus of lectures:

1.Types of research, legal aspects and financial support.

2.Clinical trials-aims, importance, types. Pharmaceutical clinical trials and their phases.

3.Correct and incorrect usage of statistics and testing of hypotheses. Interpretation of results.

4.Statistical analysis-different statistical tests and their selection. Errors and avoiding them.

5.Animal experiments-legal aspects, accessibility, practical information.

6.Ethics in research and clinical trials, ethical committees, informed consent, good clinical practice (GCP).

7.Information resources and their relevancy.

8.Writing of scientific and professional abstracts. Requirements on bachelor and diploma theses. Articles for journals.

9.Presentations of results-tables, charts, diagrams. Multimedia presentations.

10.Czech formal language.

11.English formal language.

12.Redaction and DTP work.

13.Patents and legal aspects.

14.Grants and grant process. European research and student projects.

Syllabus of tutorials:

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Study Objective:

The aim of the subject is to teach students the basic information about scientific writing, composing of reports and other publications, about writing the bachelor and diploma theses, overview of the research methods, grant applications and procedures, and usage of different information sources.

Study materials:

[1] Gustavii B.: How to Write and Illustrate a Scientific Paper. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2003.

[2] Jordan R. R.: Academic Writing Course - New Edition. Nelson, Walton-on-Thames, 2002.

Note:

Time-table for winter semester 2011/2012:

	06:00–08:0008:00–10:0010:00–12:0012:00–14:0014:00–16:0016:00–18:0018:00–20:0020:00–22:0022:00–24:00
Mon
Tue	roomKL:C-4 Roubík K. Strnadová A. 14:00–15:50 (lecture parallel1) Kladno FBMI Malý sál
Fri
Thu
Fri

Time-table for summer semester 2011/2012:

Time-table is not available yet

The course is a part of the following study plans:

• Bakalářský studijní obor Optika a optometrie - prezenční (compulsory course)