Curriculum Description - RP Module
This course description provides a necessary summary of the most important characteristics of the course and the expected learning outcomes for the student to achieve evidence of whether they made the most of the available learning opportunities. It must be linked to a description of the program.
General Description
| Category | Details |
|---|---|
| Name of Organization: | Baghdad College of Medicine |
| Department: | All Departments |
| Module Name: | Research Projects |
| Course Pattern: | Interactive teaching sessions and research consultations through the formal college website and meetings with the supervisor throughout the year and the summer holiday |
| Semester and Year: | 4th Year / Semester 1 and Summer Holiday |
| Total Course Hours: | 90 practical hours |
Goal of the Course
Enabling the students to conduct formal academic research.
Outcome of this Module
A. Cognitive and Theoretical Goals:
- Teaching the student about how to do data collection
- Teaching the student about how to choose an appropriate sample
- Teaching the student about how to do a literature review
- Teaching the student about the different variables and when to use them
- Teaching the student about statistical tests and when to use each of them
B. Skills:
- Enabling the students to choose an appropriate sample and its size
- Enabling the students to choose and use questionnaires
- Enabling the students to collect data and tabulate them using appropriate statistical methods if needed
- Enabling the students to write the results and analyze them
- Enabling the students to compare the results with the previously published studies
- Enabling the students to write appropriate conclusions and recommendations
- Enabling the student to write scientific research papers in an appropriate way
Methods of Learning
- Interactive learning activities through web-based learning activities
- Discussions with the supervisors
- Discussions with the supervisor committee in the community medicine department
Methods of Assessment
The research done will be presented at the end of the first semester, and committees responsible for research assessment will give the final marks.
C. Values and Sentimental Goals:
- Working within a team
- To know research ethics
- To know researcher and the human/animal sample ethics
Methods of Learning
After research proposal acceptance by the supervision committee, the students will start the research with formal follow-up by the supervisors.
Methods of Assessment
Discussion committee assessment
D. General and Qualifying Skills (Other Skills Related to Employability and Personal Development):
- Doing scientific research
- Importance of working within a team
- Scientific discussion about the results of the research and opinions from specialists
Infrastructure
Course Development Plan
Focusing on topics that have local community/college/country importance and putting emphasis on scientific aspects that could be developed.