Admission requirements
Bachelor. Admission to the Master Biomedical Sciences
Description
Period: 3 September 2018 - 12 October 2018
The course How to start my master (successfully) consists of two parts. The first part of the course will help you to prepare for the compulsory course Clinical Research in Practice by refreshing basic statistical concepts and by practising statistical analyses in SPSS. In the second part of the course oral presentation skills appropriate to giving a presentation to an international audience will be discussed and practiced, as well as linguistic aspects such as intonation, word stress and pronunciation of key words. For this part of the course, you can e.g. use material that you have obtained during the course How to write a research proposal. How to start my master is compulsory for students with a bachelor degree other than Biomedical Sciences Leiden or BW-track of Medicine Leiden.
Course objectives
After the course, students will:
Part I:
know basic statistics concepts, such as hypothesis testing, p-values and confidence intervals;
know standard statistical tests, such as the chi-squared test and the t-test;
Part II:
know the role and importance of Communication in Science in the master Biomedical Sciences.
be familiar with the various roles of participants at an international conference;
be able to formulate conclusions of such standard statistical hypothesis tests;
have basic experience with the statistical analysis package SPSS;
know the basics of simple linear regression analysis.
be able to recognize the characteristics of an effective scientific presentation;
know how to maximize audience engagement during a presentation;
be able to provide constructive feedback on their peers’ presentations;
have solidified their presentation skills in English;
be aware of their strengths as a speaker;
Timetable
All course and group schedules are published on our LUMC scheduling website or on the LUMC scheduling app.
Mode of instruction
(Computer) practical sessions, on-line tutorials, workgroups.
Course load
Total course load is the amount of EC’s multiplied with 28 hours.
Assessment method
Summative assessment:
Computer test (50%)
Presentation (50%)
The exam dates can be found on the schedule website.
Blackboard
Blackboard will be used during this course.
Reading list
Useful as study material: Medical Statistics at a Glance. Aviva Petrie and Caroline Sabin, Blackwell Science, 2009;
The programme SPSS version 23 or 24 has to be acquired from Surfspot: https://www.surfspot.nl/software.html;
The on-line module will be provided by Biomedical Sciences.
Registration
Registration for FOS courses, H2W, Scientific Conduct, How to start, Course on Animal Science , and CRiP and Adv concepts courses takes place in lottery rounds in the beginning of July. After the lottery rounds: if you want to register for a course you are kindly asked to contact the student administration at masterbw-courses@lumc.nl.