Matilde Filipa Monteiro Soares
Mário Jorge Dinis Ribeiro
Suitable for English-speaking students
Provide the students with the required skills to identify a research problem in health and to create or integrate available evidence to solve it.
Identify areas that need the development of new evidence,
Formulate feasible research questions, interesting, new, ethical and relevant in an adequate and complete way, according to the PICO structure;
Identify and bring together the most appropriate supervivion team for the implementation of the proposed research project;
Perform an appropriate literature review in order to justify the need for the project development as well as to characterize the state of the art,
Identify the necessary elements to create a protocol to submitt the project to the Scientific Council, the Ethics Committee, for funding applications and to the development of a thesis.
The curricular units of PhD thesis protocols I and II work autonomously. However, there is a sedimentation of knowledge skills and competences acquired in each of the UCs, carried out sequentially and progressively.
- Definition of the research protocol;
- Proper identification of the research project;
- Structured formulation of the research question and objectives;
- The rational development;
- Literature review;
- Techniques and rules for creating abstracts.
The curricular units of PhD thesis protocols I and II work autonomously. However, there is a sedimentation of knowledge skills and competences acquired in each of the UCs, carried out sequentially and progressively.
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Fathalla M. F., Fathalla M. M. F. ; A practical guide for health researchers., WHO Regional Publications, Eastern Mediterranean Series., 2004