Objectives of Programme's Learning Outcomes

• 1. Pharmaceutical expertise: Use a foundation of concepts and knowledge in health sciences and pharmaceutical sciences.
• Understand and integrate the fundamental sciences (chemistry, physics, biology, botany) involved in the specific fields of pharmaceutical sciences
• 2. Scientific method: Solve pharmaceutical problems using their knowledge and critical mind.
• Understand and apply the basic principles of reasoning (obtaining data, analysis, synthesis, comparison, the rule of three, syllogism, analogy, Boolean logic, etc.)
• Use a hypothesis in inductive, deductive or abductive reasoning
• Develop a critical, practical and analytical mind
• Manage doubt and uncertainty
• 3. Communication: Communicate in an appropriate, efficient, rigorous and respectful way in a professional perspective.
• Use a rich vocabulary linking concepts and words accurately
• Adapt lexical and syntactic choices in communication register (everyday language, medical language or scientific terminology)
• Summarise, explain, and argue
• Work in a team
• Implement ICT in an appropriate manner
• Share knowledge and information
• 4. Sense of responsibility: Act ethically and professionally.
• Base their reasoning on the data from the scientific literature
• Understand and respect the limits of their field of activity
• Respect the diversity of gender, culture and opinion
• 5. Quality: Assess themself, expand their knowledge and adapt their attitude.
• Manage time
• Prioritise
• Be aware of the concepts of good business practices and quality management.
• Have developed an interest in the medical-pharmaceutical field
• Locate scientific information efficiently
• Research, read, interpret, and critique a scientific paper with sufficient knowledge of scientific English
• Compare different sources of information

Learning Outcomes of UE

To be able to carry out a bibliographic search, exhaustive or targeted, in an efficient and fast way, and this, as well from scientific than general public databases. Build a bibliographic search guided by thesaurus.

UE Content: description and pedagogical relevance

The UE presents to the student the principles of scientific publication, the main bibliographic databases and their use, the personal tools of bibliography; the issues of open source and scientific integrity are also discussed. The evaluation is done under the form of a presentation of a scientific subject by developing the research methodology and the presentation of the subject itself.

Prior Experience

Not applicable