PROFESSIONAL LABORATORY 2

Degree course: 
Corso di First cycle degree in Physiotherapy
Academic year when starting the degree: 
2023/2024
Year: 
2
Academic year in which the course will be held: 
2024/2025
Course type: 
Various educational activities
Language: 
Italian
Credits: 
1
Standard lectures hours: 
25
Detail of lecture’s hours: 
Seminar (25 hours)
Requirements: 

Not required

Final Examination: 
Orale

Oral exam in group

Assessment: 
Giudizio Finale

- to understand the usefulness of research and methods in the scientific literature
- to develop clear and well-defined clinical questions
- to carry out bibliographic searches within the main databases
- to recognize different study designs, their structuring and analysis
- to set up a presentation/ scientific paper

Introduction to Evidence Based Medicine / Physiotherapy
Clinical question and Anatomy of research
Databases and practice (Pubmed-PEDro-Cochrane)
Guidelines-recommendations and good practices Reading and critical appraisal of scientific papers (RCT, Reviews and Obsservational studies)

Evidence Based Medicine/Physiotherapy:introduction, background, limits, obstacles, developments Research/Clinical question -PICO
Different types of study design and pyramid of evidences
Databases (Pubmed-pedro-Cochrane)
Critical appraisal of different type of study designs through dedicated checklists
Preliminary interpretation of reported results
Setting up the reporting of a paper based on different types of study design

Convenzionale

Frontal lectures, computer lab exercises, individual / group work to read and analyze scientific articles

Professors

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