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How to Read a Paper

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Official data in SubjectManager for the following academic year: 2024-2025

Course director

Number of hours/semester

lectures: 12 hours

practices: 0 hours

seminars: 0 hours

total of: 12 hours

Subject data

  • Code of subject: OAF-HRP-T
  • 1 kredit
  • General Medicine
  • Optional modul
  • autumn
Prerequisites:

-

Course headcount limitations

min. 5 – max. 25

Available as Campus course for . Campus-karok: BTK ETK GYTK TTK

Topic

The science of finding, evaluating and implementing the results of medical research can, and often does, make patient care more objective.

This course is intended for students who would like to find their way into the medical literature, assess scientific validity and practical relevance of the papers they find, and where appropriate, put the results into practice.

The main aim of the course is to help students to read and interpret medical papers better. The skills acquired during the course form the basics of evidence-based medicine.

Lectures

  • 1. Why read papers at all? - Lohner Szimonetta Ivett
  • 2. Searching the literature - Lohner Szimonetta Ivett
  • 3. Getting your bearings: what is this paper about? - Lohner Szimonetta Ivett
  • 4. Assessing methodological quality - Lohner Szimonetta Ivett
  • 5. Statistics for the non-statistician - Lohner Szimonetta Ivett
  • 6. Papers that report trials of drug treatments and other simple interventions - Lohner Szimonetta Ivett
  • 7. Papers that report trials of complex interventions - Lohner Szimonetta Ivett
  • 8. Papers that report diagnostic or screening tests - Lohner Szimonetta Ivett
  • 9. Papers that report questionnaire research - Lohner Szimonetta Ivett
  • 10. Papers that summarise other papers (systematic reviews and meta-analyses) - Lohner Szimonetta Ivett
  • 11. Papers that tell you what to do (guidelines) - Lohner Szimonetta Ivett
  • 12. Getting evidence into practice - Lohner Szimonetta Ivett

Practices

Seminars

Reading material

Obligatory literature

Literature developed by the Department

The material of the lectures will be available in printed form (“handout”).

Notes

Recommended literature

Conditions for acceptance of the semester

Attending at least 75% of the classes and completing the test exam.

Mid-term exams

Written test at the end of the course.

Making up for missed classes

Based on individual agreement.

Exam topics/questions

Exam questions are based on the content of the lectures.

Examiners

Instructor / tutor of practices and seminars

Rólunk