Research Methods in Dentistry (ZTMVK_058)
About Study Course
Objective
To provide students with knowledge, skills and competencies so that they can find answers to clinical questions with scientific methods. The course provides students with knowledge of what evidence-based dentistry means, study designs, research methodology and ethics; principles of reading, quality assessment and writing of publications. Students will develop the ability to search, critically appraise scientific literature and interpret results of scientific studies; learn research design, writing a research protocol, perform data collection and analysis, writing a manuscript.
Prerequisites
Dental public health, biostatistics.
Learning outcomes
1.• Will be able to classify research designs.
• Will know the expected results of each research design and the ways of their expression.
• Will be able to describe research methods.
• Will know the research protocol development process.
• Will be able to explain the evaluation criteria of publications.
• Will know the data processing process and statistical tests required for the analysis of results.
• Will know the guidelines for writing a research report and publication for each research design.
1.• Will perform a search of the literature to find answer to a clinical question.
• Will apply guidelines for the evaluation of scientific publications.
• Will be able to apply the results of scientific publications in clinical situations.
• Will apply guidelines for the writing a research protocol.
• Will be able to perform the simplest data processing and analysis tasks.
• Will be able to communicate about the results of scientific research (oral and writing skills).
1.Using the acquired knowledge of the basics of scientific methodology will be able to independently solve clinical issues, searching, analyzing and critically evaluating scientific publications; with the support will be able to plan and conduct new research considering the FAIR principles.
