Competencies and objectives

 

Course context for academic year 2023-24

The context of this subject comes from the student to whom it is addressed, who is studying for a degree in Medicine, a degree in the field of Health Sciences. Although statistical methods have been present in most Health Sciences university degrees for decades, it is since their inclusion as a basic subject in the study plans of undergraduate university degrees included in the branch of knowledge of Health Sciences. Health when it has come to consolidate its presence in all the degrees of this branch, as it had been recommended by the World Health Organization, when picking up a need derived from its growing use by professionals of the Health Sciences in all plots of its field of action.
The Health Sciences pose a scenario and particular subjects of work (the health of the human being). Thus, the care and management functions, both in their clinical and community aspects, require basic tools to manage information generated in the workplace on the use and interpretation of information from one or several subjects, data organization, understanding of quantitative information. , basic writing of reports, etc., and for access to information from secondary sources such as reading scientific articles, books, reports, clinical guidelines, etc. They will also require the preparation or interpretation of vital statistics related to the beginning or end of life, social statistics covering living conditions according to social strata, and general health statistics dedicated to knowledge of health resources, their use, community health problems, lifestyles, etc. For its part, the research function will require further in-depth study of essential aspects of the scientific method in which statistics play an important role when quantitative research methods are used, having to delve into contents related to inference, useful for the correct assessment of the conclusions drawn, and specific statistical models and methods, with which to answer more complex research questions.
In the described scenario, an important point is the delimitation of the level of depth in the presentation of the chosen contents. Statistical methods are quantitative methods generally expressed in mathematical language. In relation to the desirable profile of a future Health Sciences professional, training in this subject must contribute to a broad cultural formation. Numerous reasons would support this affirmation, being able to consider among them the induction to a type of logical-deductive thought, the value of the generalization of concepts, the cultivation of respect for the truth, promoting the habit of self-criticism, the creation of universal languages, the development of imagination and intuition, and many other characteristics that would contribute to equipping students with immediately useful qualification and quantification techniques in other subjects of their curriculum, as well as prepare them to undertake new scientific advances that will promote in the future.

 

 

Course competencies (verified by ANECA in official undergraduate and Master’s degrees) for academic year 2023-24

UA Basic Transversal Competences

  • CT1 : To read and understand texts in English.
  • CT2 : Show computer and information system skills and abilities.
  • CT3 : Show oral and written communication skills.

 

General Competences

  • CG28 : Obtain and use epidemiological data and assess trends and risks for health decision-making.
  • CG31 : Know, critically assess and know how to use clinical and biomedical information sources to obtain, organize, interpret and communicate scientific and health information.
  • CG32 : Know how to use information and communication technologies in clinical, therapeutic, preventive and research activities.
  • CG34 : Adopt a critical, creative, constructively sceptical and research-oriented standpoint in professional practice. in professional practice in professional practicein professional practice
  • CG35 : Understand the importance and limitations of scientific thought in the study, prevention and management of diseases.
  • CG36 : Be able to formulate hypotheses, collect and critically assess information for problem solving, following the scientific method.
  • CG5 : Acknowledge their own limitations and the need to maintain and update their professional competence, with special emphasis on the autonomous learning of new knowledge and techniques and the motivation for quality.

 

Specific competences:>>Module II: Social Medicine, communication skills and initiation to research

  • CE2.06 : Know, critically assess and know how to use the technologies and sources of clinical and biomedical information, to obtain, organize, interpret and communicate clinical, scientific and health information.
  • CE2.07 : Know the basic concepts of biostatistics and its application to medical sciences. Be able to design and perform simple statistical analyses using computer programs and interpret the results. Understand and interpret statistical data in the medical literature.
  • CE2.11 : Understand and critically interpret scientific texts. Know the principles of the scientific method, biomedical research and clinical trials.
  • CE2.13 : Know and handle the principles of (the best) evidence-based medicine.

 

 

 

Learning outcomes (Training objectives)

Students must acquire knowledge and develop skills for the design of studies and statistical analysis of data, for the analysis of data using specific software, and for the interpretation and communication of statistical results in the field of Health Sciences.

 

 

Specific objectives stated by the academic staff for academic year 2023-24

The student must acquire knowledge and develop skills for study design and statistical data analysis, for data analysis through specific software, and for the interpretation and communication of statistical results in the field of Health Sciences.

 

 

General

Code: 27204
Lecturer responsible:
Nolasco Bonmatí, Juan Andrés
Credits ECTS: 6,00
Theoretical credits: 1,20
Practical credits: 1,20
Distance-base hours: 3,60

Departments involved

  • Dept: Community Nursing, Preventive Medicine & Public Health and History of Science
    Area: NURSING
    Theoretical credits: 1,2
    Practical credits: 1,2
    This Dept. is responsible for the course.
    This Dept. is responsible for the final mark record.

Study programmes where this course is taught