General provisions

The course is included in the Radiology Technition programme, term 4, and includes 7.5 credits for theory.

Entry requirements

Passed courses from term 1 as well as 15 credits from term 2.

Learning outcomes

After the Scientific method course, student should be able to:

• Describe different parts of the research process and statistical methods at a basic level
• Understand and describe as well as concretise scientific concepts, research-ethical principles, common examples of statistical tables and compilations.
• Understand, describe and use scientific articles as references, which comprises searching and identifying relevant scientific articles. Also, to be able to summarise and refer to those scientific articles.
• Understand and describe as well as use his/her knowledge in scientific method and statistics in article reviewing and developing assignments.

Content

• scientific concepts
• research design- problem and method
• quantitative and qualitative data collection methods
• descriptive statistics as well as parametric and non-parametric methods
• literature study as a method
• scientific reporting and critical reviewing
• research ethics
• questionnaire construction
• qualitative research methods

Instruction

Lectures, group work, individual work, seminars

Compulsory parts of the course: Introduction to course's/modules, scheduled group meetings, seminars, practical exercises, written assignments/essays and examination

Assessment

Examination is done continuously throughout the course in form of written and oral assignments both individually and in groups. All the components of the course and a written final examination must be approved before the course is completed.