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70 hours Saltra- university research course for health professionals
Type of course: Post graduate semi-virtual research course – Diploma (5 credits)

Participant universities: All universities with occupational, environmental and public health training courses

Participants:


 * 1) Professionals who work in a clinic with the possibility to collect patient questionnaires
 * 2) Professionals in public health with access to register data

Location: the courses will be held in different parts of the country with at least 5-10 participants

Objectives: The participants will perform a small study based on the questionnaire for occupational medicine patients in general practice

Time schedule: 70 hours distributed over 5 month (see program scheme)

24 hours in 3 workshops a 8 hours + 18 hours used for 3 month data collecting + 28 hours at home in 2 months to analyse the data and to write a small article

Teachers: a team of teachers will give lectures and be the tutors during data collection and writing of the article

After the course: - the participants have the necessary skills to:


 * 1) Perform other research projects based on their own research questions
 * 2) Prepare an article for publication
 * 3) Develop their research skills
 * 4) Teachers in the research courses

Workshop 1

 * 1) Formulating a good research question
 * 2) Zotero: collect, organise and cite lit.
 * 3) Make your archive en Dropbox
 * 4) Search and organise the literature
 * 5) Write a study protocol
 * 6) Learn to use Epi-data
 * 7) Theory: The prevalence rate
 * 8) Evaluation of the day

Practica 1
3 month data collecting in the clinics – or in the administrative registers

Workshop 2

 * 1) Analyse the data
 * 2) Excel, Epi-info, Epi-analysis
 * 3) Scientific communication
 * 4) Start to write an article
 * 5) Theory: The incidence rate
 * 6) Evaluation of the day

Practica 2
2 months work with analysis of the data and edition of the article at home (18 hours)

Workshop 3 (final)

 * 1) Finalise the article ready to Publish in “La Revista…”
 * 2) Diploma
 * 3) Evaluation of the course