UCL - Personal work - researcher student

[MEDI2139]

[48h] 4 credits

This course is not taught in 2009-2010

Teacher(s):

Language: French

Level: Second

Aims
Main themes
Content and teaching methods
Other information (prerequisite, evaluation (assessment methods), course materials recommended readings, ...)

Aims

The activity of researcher student (RS) is an introduction to the steps of the scientific method.

Main themes

The RS takes part in a research activity in a laboratory of the medical college. This activity includes a phase of formation, specific to the field of research considered, the regular presence at the meetings where the protocols and the results of research in progress are discussed, as well as a direct participation in research itself. For these activities, the RS will be supervised directly by a member of the academic or scientific community. The promoter will have regular personal contacts with the RS and will be thus responsible for his formation.

Content and teaching methods

From the end of their first year of graduate in medicine, students can enter in direct contact with the basic research. The activity of RS however gives place to credits only starting from MED21. The students who want to obtain the statute of RS have to contact a promoter and to agree with him to lodge a request based on a research project. No inscription will be accepted after MED 21 (deadline October 30). The awaited temporal investment of RS is about 3 to 4 weeks (full-time equivalent) per year (distributed on the academic year and the holidays according to the availabilities and desiderata of the reception facilities, of the requirements of the subject and the possibilities of the RS).

Other information (prerequisite, evaluation (assessment methods), course materials recommended readings, ...)

Report: The RS will provide to the President of the Commission a report written jointly with its promoter and signed by him (deadline : 1st of June). This report (maximum one page) will briefly describe the subject of research, the implemented methods and the results obtained during the academic year. It will also specify the direct involvement of the student.
Evaluation: note given by the promoter.