Medicine and Surgery

The main objective of this course is that the students learn a method to critically read the biomedical literature so that they continue to inform and form themselves for the entire duration of their career as doctors. For this aim the specific aims of the course are the following: • To understand and critically discuss medical research articles in English. • Perform exercises to broaden specific terminology • To classify a publication based on its genre, goals, and characteristics. • To transform a non-linear text (graphs, tables, figures) into a linear text and viceversa. • To recognize, in a research article, the methodological elements used by the researchers (inclusion and exclusion criteria, sample choice and size, laboratory methods and data management methods). • To interpret and critically evaluate the medical and scientific value of the data presented based on its statistical soundness. • To perform researches on biomedical databanks in English (online and on printed journals). • To communicate in English (oral or written) with the correct register for scientific communications with colleagues or at conferences