Unit name | Concepts and Skills (pharmacology) |
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Unit code | PHPH30005 |
Credit points | 20 |
Level of study | H/6 |
Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 4 (weeks 1-24) |
Unit director | Dr. Teschemacher |
Open unit status | Not open |
Pre-requisites |
None |
Co-requisites |
None |
School/department | School of Physiology, Pharmacology & Neuroscience |
Faculty | Faculty of Life Sciences |
This unit aims to provide training in core skills and techniques that are vital to effectively read, interpret and criticise the scientific literature, as well as to analyse and communicate scientific findings. It includes: statistics, data quantitation, critical reading of research literature, experimental design, and ethics of animal and human experimentation.
In addition, there are lectures, practicals and demonstrations to provide training in practical techniques used in pharmacological research. This includes advanced technical workshops taking place in research labs, where students gain hands-on experience of the latest techniques.
Lectures, practicals, technical workshops and tutorials
The unit will be assessed through:
Intuitive Biostatistics (Harvey Motulsky, Oxford University Press: ISBN:978-0-19-973006-3)
Understanding the New Statistics: Effect Sizes, Confidence Intervals and Meta-analysis (Geoff Cumming, Routledge, New York; ISBN:978-0-415-87968-2)
Reviews and primary articles from the current scientific literature.