Scientific Writing and Communication in Health

Code: CMS15075M

3 ECTS

Duration: 15 weeks/78 hours

Scientific Area: Health Sciences

Teaching languages: Portuguese

Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese

Regime de Frequência: Presencial

Sustainable Development Goals

Saúde de qualidade - Assegurar uma vida saudável e promover o bem-estar para todos, em todas as idades.

Educação de qualidade - Assegurar a educação inclusiva, e equitativa e de qualidade, e promover oportunidades de aprendizagem ao longo da vida para todos.

Learning Goals

The objective of this curricular unit is to provide students with skills to effectively communicate scien-tific work in the area of health sciences, relevant to their training, both through written and oral com-munication.

Students should be able to:
1. Develop skills in editing and criticizing your own work, as well as that of others, by taking ad-vantage of constructive feedback from reviewers and evaluators.
2. Actively participate in the publication process in scientific journals and in the presentation of results at conferences, thus contributing to the continuous improvement of the quality and clarity of your sci-entific communications.

1. Scientific literature: the different types of scientific articles (original articles, review articles, system-atic reviews with and without meta-analysis, clinical cases, editorial, etc.)
2. How to choose the most appropriate scientific journal. Predatory publishers and magazines
3. The publishing process
4. Structure of articles design
5. Scientific writing standards (APA and NP-405) and source and reference management software
6. Principles of effective writing
7. Ethical problems and scientific writing (plagiarism, authorship and responsibility of authors, ghost-writing, reproducibility of research, use of Artificial Intelligence)
8. The Peer Review Process
9. Posters and oral communications
10. Communication to the general public.

Teaching Methods

Throughout the theoretical-practical sessions, the defined program contents will be presented and, in practical-laboratory practices and field work, the development of reading exercises and analysis of scientific articles will be reinforced, supported by the development of inferential skills, critical thinking and teamwork that encourage writing and oral communication, based on research into scientific articles. In this way, we intend to highlight the importance of the themes exposed for the development of written and oral scientific communication skills. In order to establish greater contact and interactivity with students, and as a way of making support materials available for the syllabus taught throughout the academic semester, teachers will permanently use the University of Évora's teaching platform (Moodle). Challenges and study problems will also be launched on this platform.

Assessment

In the continuous assessment regime, the final grade of the course will result from the weighted average of the practical component and the theoretical component, with the following weightings:
Theoretical component:
- Test 1: 50%;
Practical component:
- Practical work (2): 50%;
In the examination regime, the final grade of the discipline will result from the weighted average of the practical component and the theoretical component, with the following weightings:
Theoretical component:
- Exam: 50%;
Practical component:
- Practical work: 50%;