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13430
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| Year |
3
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| Semester |
S2
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| ECTS Credits |
6
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| Workload |
PL(50H)/S(10H)
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| Scientific area |
Biomedical Sciences
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Entry requirements |
NA
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Mode of delivery |
Face-to-face.
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Work placements |
Not applicable.
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Learning outcomes |
The main goals of this Course Unit are:
- to interconnect the knowledge acquired during the 1st cycle degree in Biomedical Sciences e to promote its application in problem solving.
- to perform multidisciplinary laboratory rotations.
- to write scientific reports
- to adquire basic practical skills in the context of Biomedical Sciences.
At the end of the course unit, the student should be able to:
- Make a bibliographic search using the most relevant databases in Biomedical Sciences.
- Execute and develop laboratory protocols and experimental procedures
- Read and interpret scientific articles written in the English language.
- Summarize the information contained in original scientific papers and use it to write scientific reports.
- Interconnect and apply the knowledge acquired in the Biology, Chemistry, Physics, and Engineering fields for problem-solving.
- Orally communicate, in the Portuguese language, the outcome of the bibliographic search.
- Work with a high level of autonomy.
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Syllabus |
1. Types of scientific articles. Definition, purpose and how should be written.
2. Revision about databases of scientific articles: PubMed, Web of Science and IEEE. Introduction to the database Scopus.
3. Search and selection, by the students, of multidisciplinary scientific articles.
4. Introduction to reference manager software: Mendeley.
5. Multidisciplinary laboratory rotations.
6. Skills: Calibration / pH calibration; Centrifugation; Use of voltage sources, a multimeter, and a breadboard; Identification of electronic components; Utilization of signal sources and an oscilloscope
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Main Bibliography |
- Databases of scientific articles: PubMed (www.pubmed.com), Web of Science (www.webofknowledge.com), Scopus (www.scopus.com) and IEEE (https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/).
- Original and review articles of the specialty, in the scientific areas of laboratory rotations.
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Teaching Methodologies and Assessment Criteria |
Multidisciplinary laboratory rotations. Students have 2 options:
a) 2 6-week laboratory rotations - Practical work in the scientific area of the tutor (1 tutor)
b) 1 12-week rotation - Practical multidisciplinary work involving 2 tutors with expertise in different scientific areas (Biomedicine, Physics, Chemistry, Informatics, Engineering, Mathematics, etc).
Students must write scientific reports: 2 reports in the case of 6-week rotations, 1 report in the case of 12-week rotations.
In the case of students who only carry out 1 laboratory rotation of 6 weeks, in the remaining 6 weeks they must write a mini-review theoretical work.
Compulsory approval of practical skills and final approval rating of 10 out of 10.
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Language |
Portuguese. Tutorial support is available in English.
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