ECTS credits ECTS credits: 4.5
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Hours of tutorials: 2 Expository Class: 16 Interactive Classroom: 11 Total: 29
Use languages Spanish, Galician
Type: Ordinary subject Master’s Degree RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Departments: Psychiatry, Radiology, Public Health, Nursing and Medicine
Areas: Preventive Medicine and Public Health
Center Faculty of Optics and Optometry
Call: First Semester
Teaching: With teaching
Enrolment: Enrollable | 1st year (Yes)
1. Through advanced methodology, train students to know how to interpret published studies of relevance for research in Visual Sciences.
2. That the students know how to design and analyze population studies in the field of Visual Sciences.
3. That the students know how to carry out meta-analysis in all its stages in the field of Visual Sciences.
Theoretical content:
1: Classroom teaching following the calender previously published. General aspects of the course and introductory topics will be explained.
2: Virtual teaching in which the contents of the theoretical program will be made available to students in an online environment that will consist of written documentation and audio and video presentations.
-Scientific method. Types of hypotheses.
-Types of variables and scales in research in Visual Sciences
- Questionnaires and other methods of data collection in Visual Sciences
- Notions of epidemiology in Visual Sciences: frequency measures, effect measures, epidemiological designs, concept of confusion and effect modification, modeling.
- Bibliographic searches: notions of search strategy, free search, search by keywords.
- Systematic reviews in Visual Sciences
. Meta-analysis in Visual Sciences: evolution, principles, tools, notion of heterogeneity, publication bias.
Interactive content: Practical exercises of bibliographic search, data analysis, writing simulated research projects. Carrying out a meta-analysis.
Tutorials: Personalized face-to-face or distance tutoring according to the needs of the students, to solve specific problems.
- Manual de método epidemiológico del Instituto de Salud Carlos III: http://www.isciii.es/ISCIII/es/contenidos/fd-publicaciones-isciii/fd-do…
The following books, although published several years ago, may prove useful for the student:
- Piédrola Gil et al. Medicina Preventiva y Salud Pública. 12ª Edición. Barcelona: Masson, 2015.
- Ahlbom A et al. Fundamentos de epidemiología. Ed Siglo XXI. 2007.
- Johnson GJ et al. The epidemiology of eye diseases (3rd edition). London: Imperial College Press, 2012
Knowledge:
• Con01. Demonstrate knowledge from different perspectives within the field of vision sciences.
• Con03. Demonstrate the knowledge and skills necessary for entry into specialized professional practice.
Skills and Abilities:
• H/D01. Demonstrate skills from different perspectives within the field of vision sciences.
• H/D02. Ability to work collaboratively with other professionals as part of a multidisciplinary team with a high level of effectiveness.
• H/D04. Participate in debates and discussions, lead and coordinate them, and be able to summarize and extract the most relevant conclusions accepted by the majority.
Competences:
• Comp05. Apply scientific research methodology and procedures in the field of vision sciences.
• Comp06. Ability to communicate research findings to specialized, academic, and general audiences.
• Comp08. Develop critical thinking, self-assessment, and decision-making skills.
Theoretical and interactive teaching will be taught online and in the classroom, following the calendar previously published. The tutorials may be in person or via telematic tools (videoconference) if the students find it difficult to move. The USC Virtual Campus will be used as the basis for this teaching. Students will find documentation, audiovisual material and assignments in the virtual classroom. Any exchange will take place through the virtual classroom or in the face-to-face sessions.
Continuous evaluation (30%). Effort and progress in learning will be assessed through control questions (online) at the equator of the subject.
Final exam (70%) of face-to-face type that will be of the test type and will involve solving problems.
For cases of fraudulent conduct in exercises or exams, the USC "Normativa de avaliación do rendemento académico dos estudantes e de revisión de cualificacións" will apply to USC students.
- Theoretical classes (not face-to-face): 12 hours.
- Preparation of the interactive activity: 16 hours.
- Personalized tutoring: 4 hours
- Taking the exam: 1 hour in person.
- Freelance work: 42 hours
It is essential that students are up-to-date in the preparation of the different topics for monitoring and passing the subject. Students must carry out all the activities recommended by the teacher (problem solving, bibliographic review and practical exercises) in order to successfully pass the subject.
Most of the teaching material will be made available to students through the USC Virtual Campus. We intend this platform to be the main channel of communication with students.
El Bahi Takkouche Souilamas
- Department
- Psychiatry, Radiology, Public Health, Nursing and Medicine
- Area
- Preventive Medicine and Public Health
- Phone
- 881812268
- bahi.takkouche [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Lecturer
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| 16:00-18:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Spanish | Classroom 5 |
| 01.12.2026 16:00-18:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Classroom 3 |
| 06.22.2026 16:00-18:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Classroom 3 |