Aim

The aim of the course is to provide basic knowledge of Informatics, to enable the student to apply information technology to education (undergraduate, postgraduate and lifelong learning), clinical practice and research.

Learning outcomes

1. Word Processing: The student should be able to create documents following the style, formatting and outline of a scientific paper, and insert references, figures, tables and charts.
2. Presentations: The student should be able to create slide presentations that include text, images and animated elements, for oral and poster presentations at scientific conferences.
3. Spreadsheets: The student should be able to create and use spreadsheets for simple statistical analyses and creation of charts.
4. Image processing: The student should be able to use image processing software for basic image manipulation of images and image enhancement.
5. Internet, databases, web applications, search engines: The student should be able to search for texts, images and articles through search engines (Google, Google Scholar, PubMed, Scopus, Science Citation Index) and obtain quality measures of articles and journals (citations, impact factors).

Content

Introduction, basic concepts. Web applications, literature search. Text editing. Spreadsheets. Images and image editing. Presentations, poster creation. Presentations - Best practices. Presentation of papers by students.

Educational methods

• Seminars.
• Hands-on training and exercises.

Criteria for successful completion

• Attendance of at least 80% of the seminars and laboratory exercises.
• Presentation of final paper.