Evidence-based dentistry in digital age
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2024-2025
02046678
Clinical Area
Portuguese
B-learning
SEMESTRIAL
3.0
Compulsory
2nd Cycle Studies - Mestrado
Recommended Prerequisites
Skills and Attitudes – English Language, Information and Communication Technologies, Proactivity, Professionalism, and Interpersonal Relationship Skills.
Teaching Methods
T: Lecturing and discussing.
Learning Outcomes
This course aims to become an offer of reference in the domain of managing innovation in an increasingly digital world; Enhance adequate research information skills; Information retrieval techniques and strategies and Improvement of the evaluation, dissemination and promotion of the scientific output; Ethics in research and publication.
An attractive course for about the Discovery, Publication, Assessment, Outreach of scientific information.
Work Placement(s)
NoSyllabus
• Discovery:
o Data science in evidence-based medicine (on-line content);
o Evidence databases, how to access and explore (face-to-face content);
o Improve effectiveness in information retrieval - research strategies (face-to-face content);
o Overload of information in the digital age – use of filters (face-to-face content);
o Assessment of the validity of different information resources (on-line content);
o New information resources (face-to-face content);
o Predictive models and the creation of digital databases (face-to-face content);
• Publication:
o Open repositories; digital archives; open science tools and open data (face-to-face content);
o Ethical integrity (on-line content);
• Assessment/Assessment of scientific output:
o Methods for evaluating research and researchers (open science) (on-line content);
• Outreach/Dissemination:
o Profiles of researchers and networks (on-line content);
o Social Media Platforms in Education and Science Dissemination (face-to-face content).
Head Lecturer(s)
Francisco José Fernandes Vale
Assessment Methods
Assessment
Exam: 50.0%
Continuous assessment according to e-log book : 50.0%
Bibliography
- Donato H, et al. Stages for undertaking a systematic review. Acta Med Port. 2019;32:227-35
- Grant MJ, et al. A typology of reviews: an analysis of 14 review types and associated methodologies. Health Info Libr J. 2009;26:91-108
- Joda T, Bornstein MM, Jung RE, Ferrari M, Waltimo T, Zitzmann NU. Recent Trends and Future Direction of Dental Research in the Digital Era. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2020;17:1987.
- Joob B, Wiwanitkit V. Plagiarism, Self-Plagiarism, and Text Recycling: Ethical Problem in Academic Publication. Headache. 2019;59:107.
- Menezes RG, et al. Authorship: Few Myths and Misconceptions. Sci Eng Ethics. 2016;22:1843-7.
- Misra DP, Ravindran V. Publication misconducts related to copyright: tread carefully to avoid falling. J R Coll Physicians Edinb. 202;50:3-5.
- Siddaway AP, et al. How to do a systematic review: a best practice guide for conducting and reporting narrative reviews, meta-analyses, and meta-syntheses. Annu Rev Psychol. 2019;70:747-70.