Laboratory training

Teacher(s)

Kienlen-Campard Pascal;

Language

French

Prerequisites

This course is offered to students whose program corresponds to the annual block 3 of the Bachelor degree in Biomedical Sciences, as well as to students following a program preparatory to the Master in Biomedical Sciences.

The prerequisite(s) for this Teaching Unit (Unité d’enseignement – UE) for the programmes/courses that offer this Teaching Unit are specified at the end of this sheet.

Main themes

This activity takes the form of a laboratory internship of 10 half-days. The internship takes place in a laboratory of the Health Sector of UCLouvain.

Learning outcomes

At the end of this learning unit, the student is able to :
1	At the end of this activity, the student will be able to: 1.       Implement a set of simple experiments to answer a research hypothesis. 2.       Keep a laboratory notebook according to the standard procedures. 3.       Describe and interpret experimental results. 4.       Have a critical look at his/her results with respect to scientific literature. 5.       Write a scientific report. 6.       Present and defend orally the results obtained during the internship.

Content

One-week immersive internship in a laboratory in the health sector.

Teaching methods

Accompanying seminars will train the student in the analysis, formatting and interpretation of experimental results as well as in the writing of an internship report.

Evaluation methods

Evaluation of the placement by the host team (skills/acquired/attitudes, grade A). Assessment of the placement report (grade B) and presentation of the work done in front of peers (grade C). The final grade is the weighted average of grades A, B and C.

Online resources

The online resources are available on the course website moodle. They contain instructions for writing the internship report and the support of the proposed seminars for the reduction of the report.

Faculty or entity

SBIM