| Educational guide Faculty of Chemistry |
english |
| Nutrition and Metabolism (2012) |
 Subjects |
| BASIC RESEARCH METHODOLOGY |
| Contents |
| IDENTIFYING DATA | 2019_20 |
| Subject | BASIC RESEARCH METHODOLOGY | Code | 13675203 | |||||
| Study programme |
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Cycle | 2nd | |||||
| Descriptors | Credits | Type | Year | Period | ||||
| 3 | Optional | |||||||
| Competences | Learning aims | Contents |
| Planning | Methodologies | Personalized attention |
| Assessment | Sources of information | Recommendations |
| Topic | Sub-topic |
| 1. The scientific method. | History and evolution of the scientific method. Approach of research projects, background search, and hypothesis approach. |
| 2. Quality criteria. | Certification, accreditation and normalization. Good Laboratory Practices (GLP). Principles covering GLP. Standard operating procedure. Audit. |
| 3. Animal experimentation. | Historical origins. Legislation. Animal welfare. Basic experimental procedures: administration of substances and routes of administration, biological sampling, analgesia and euthanasia. Classification of animal models. Types of experimentation animals. |
| 4. Alternatives to the use of animals of experimentation. |
3Rs concept: replacement, reduction, refinement. Validation of alternative methods. Legislation. Experimental design. Alternative in education. |
| 5. Bibliographic search. | Bibliographic managers. Typology and common characteristics. Bibliographic databases. Strategy for bibliographic searches. Personal library management. Bibliometric indicators. |
| 6. Analysis, processing and representation of data. | Basic notions about analysis and treatment of data, graphs and statistics. |
| 7. Research diffusion. |
Redaction of a report or an article. Content organization. Writing references. |
| 8. Presentation of results in public. | Structuring of presentations. Effective design and visual adjustments. Audience, speech and non-verbal language. |
