FDZEa_FAF Basics of Scientific Work and Research Ethics

Faculty of Pharmacy
Spring 2025
Extent and Intensity
1/0/0. 10 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
In-person direct teaching
Teacher(s)
prof. PharmDr. Karel Šmejkal, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. PharmDr. Karel Šmejkal, Ph.D.
Faculty of Pharmacy
Prerequisites
Basic prerequisites of scientific work
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The graduates will acquaint themselves with the propedeutics of research activities. After graduation, students will be able to engage in research projects as both proponents and investigators. They will acquire the creative approach to solving problems in the field of pharmacology and biomedicine. Under the Faculty conditions, Doctoral students will demonstrate compliance with the criteria of the subject by submitting a literary research on a topic related to the assignment of their dissertation. Credits for completing this subject are recorded by the supervisor, who also assesses the fulfillment of the task and the form of processing. The research can be in written or electronic form and can be considered as a rigorous work. The Faculty offers its Doctoral students participation in seminars and trainings concerning the methodology of scientific research, publication of their results and work with information sources. Credits can be obtained after completing the Course of the basis of scientific work at the Czech Academy of Sciences upon submission of the Certificate of completion.
Learning outcomes
Ability to analyze a scientific problem, create a solution, be able to describe the solution in a form suitable for presentation.
Syllabus
The content of the subject is the student's education in the field of acquiring scientific and research knowledge from literary sources, formulating the aim of the research activity, elaborating the methodology of the research work. Furthermore, the student is educated on how to create data structures or information verifying hypotheses to obtain scientific data processing, statistical evaluation and interpretation, discussion assessment of the results and a comparison with the results of other scientific papers, how to draw conclusions, create a list of literary sources and further formalities of the scientific papers, tables, charts, photographic documentation, diagrams, and also the doctoral thesis, as well as the ethical issues of scientific work and publishing. The subject is completed by a credit.
Literature
    recommended literature
  • FOLEY, Robert; Robert MAWENI; Shahram SHIRAZI and Hussein JAAFAR. How to succeed in medical research : a practical guide. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Blackwell, 2021, xii, 153. ISBN 9781119645498. info
  • ROWE, Philip. Essential statistics for the pharmaceutical sciences. Second edition. Chichester: Wiley, 2016, xx, 409. ISBN 9781118913390. info
Teaching methods
Dialogue, consultations, participation in seminars
Assessment methods
Project, oral presentation
Náhradní absolvování
It is possible to take the oral exam after returning from the internship abroad.
Language of instruction
English
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2025, Spring 2026.
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