Section outline
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Session content
- Introduction to research
- Procedural steps in research
- Epidemiologic studies
- Bias, confounders and ways to control for them
Session learning objectives:
- To provide basic introduction to research methods and techniques
- Students should understand a general definition of research design
- To identify the overall process of designing a research study from its inception to its report
- To describe different types and characteristics of quantitative research methods (epidemiological studies) and know the primary characteristics of quantitative research and qualitative research
- To identify different types of errors existing in research studies that can jeopardize the findings.