Data
Official data in SubjectManager for the following academic year: 2024-2025
Course director
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Lohner Szimonetta Ivett
associate professor,
Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapy -
Number of hours/semester
lectures: 12 hours
practices: 0 hours
seminars: 0 hours
total of: 12 hours
Subject data
- Code of subject: OAF-BOT-T
- 1 kredit
- General Medicine
- Optional modul
- spring
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Course headcount limitations
min. 5 – max. 25
Available as Campus course for . Campus-karok: ETK GYTK
Topic
Evidence-based medicine (EBM) offers practical tools to solve the practical problems arising in clinical settings as well as in outpatient care. This course is aimed not only to summarise the basic knowledge of EBM, but to provide practical examples of the usefulness of EBM as well. Formulating of clinical questions, literature search strategies as well as critical appraisal of papers revealed by the search is discussed in detail.
Lectures
- 1. Definition of evidence-based medicine. The role of evidence in medical praxis - Lohner Szimonetta Ivett
- 2. Study designs. Hierarchy of evidence - Lohner Szimonetta Ivett
- 3. Observational studies - Lohner Szimonetta Ivett
- 4. Interventional studies. Randomised controlled trials - Lohner Szimonetta Ivett
- 5. Planning and conducting a clinical trial - based on own experiences - Lohner Szimonetta Ivett
- 6. How to search for scientific literature efficiently? - Lohner Szimonetta Ivett
- 7. Systematic literature searching - Lohner Szimonetta Ivett
- 8. Summarizing data. Meta-analysis - Lohner Szimonetta Ivett
- 9. Critical appraisal of scientific literature - Lohner Szimonetta Ivett
- 10. The international Cochrane collaboration and Cochrane in Hungary - Lohner Szimonetta Ivett
- 11. Guideline development process - Lohner Szimonetta Ivett
- 12. Role of guidelines in everyday clinical praxis - Lohner Szimonetta Ivett
Practices
Seminars
Reading material
Obligatory literature
Literature developed by the Department
The teaching material will be made available for the students (handout).
Notes
Recommended literature
Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions. The Cochrane Collabortation. http://handbook.cochrane.org/
Conditions for acceptance of the semester
A kurzus minimum 75 %-án való részvétel és tesztvizsga.
Mid-term exams
The readiness of students to apply methods of evidence-based medicine in practical settings will be evaluated during the course.
Making up for missed classes
Missing not more than three hours may be amended by studying at home and answering specific questions of the tutor.
Exam topics/questions
Exam topics are based on lectures.