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Week 1
  1. Welcome, Orientation of the program - methods articles multilingual
  2. Install and use Literature program "Endnote"/"Zotero"
  3. Next week
Self-study next week 5 hours
  1. Install and use Literature program "Endnote"/"Zotero"
  2. IMRAD
  3. Search 5 articles on work-related Stress and Depression, make a 150-200-word IMRAD style resume with list of references
Week 2
  1. Experience from last week
  2. IMRAD orientation
  3. Mahre-Net orientation
Self-study next week 5-6 hours
  1. Training Literature program "Endnote"/"Zotero"
  2. Malaria infections: make an Abstract in IMRAD style
  3. Orientation MAHRE-Net
Week 3
  1. Experience from last week
  2. Equator-Network ‘guidelines’ for reporting of studies: PRISMA, CONSORT, STROBE
Self-study next week 5 hours
  1. Equator-Network ‘guidelines’ for reporting of studies: PRISMA, CONSORT, STROBE
  2. Effectiveness of smoking cessation interventions - Cochrane review of reviews
  3. Studies on the risk of ischaemic heart disease...Make an Abstract in IMRAD style
Week 4
  1. Experience from last week
  2. Occupational_Health_Risk_Surveillance
  3. Epidemiology introduction
Self-study next week 5 hours
  1. Epidemiology introduction
  2. Epidemiology cross-sectional study
  3. Occupational health Risk Surveillance
  4. Identify a health problem in your school/workplace, write a 200 words 'research project' abstract for the next meeting
Week 5
  1. Discussion on a selected work health problem
  2. Epidemiology introduction
  3. Epidemiology prevalence rate
Self-study next week 5 hours
  1. Epidemiology prevalence
  2. Overview: food and nutrition of seafarers... Make an Abstract in IMRAD style
Week 6
  1. Epidemiology prevalence and incidence
  2. Search scientific literature
Self-study next week 5 hours
  1. Epidemiology Incidence
  2. Search scientific literature
  3. Posttraumatic stress
  4. Search 5 articles on PTSD at work/sea and store them in Endnote or Zoteroand make a review with a reference list IMRAD structure
Week 7

Midterm exam

  1. You get a research question and have to search and keep five references in your reference system,
  2. Based on abstract and write in Word a small short IMRAD structured summary 100-150 words and make the reference list in Word.
  3. Questions of understanding of the course content
Self-study next week 5 hours
  1. Cohort study
  2. Case-control study
  3. Odds Ratio
  4. Logistic regression
  5. Systematic review study
Week 8
  1. Epidemiology - biostatistic significance
  2. Data analysis – which program to use for data analysis
  3. Excel, Epi-info, Spss, Stata
Self-study next week 5 hours
  1. Understanding and calculating confidence intervals for population proportions - statistics help Youtube
  2. Epidemiology - biostatistic significance
  3. Electronic Research tools 2
  4. Download Epi-info / Stata / Spss and try it out, with a data sample
Week 9

Data analysis experiences and problems Use of Excel, Epi-info, Spss Venezuela data set

Self-study next week 5 hours
  1. Analyse a data set, make tables from the data:
  2. Excel Data sheet for exercise
Week 10
  1. Experiences from analysis of data
  2. The research protocol for GHQ12
Self-study next week 5 hours
  1. Protocolo GHQ12
  2. Epidemiology cross-sectional study
  3. Epidemiology Cohort study
  4. Reading reference literature in the protocol
Week 11
  1. Discussion of the protocol
  2. Epidemiology information bias
Self-study next week 5 hours
  1. Qualitative research
  2. Epidemiology information bias
Week 12
  1. Create Google drive if not done already
  2. Practical management of Google Forms
Self-study next week 5 hours
  1. Create Google drive if not already
  2. Practical management of Google Forms
Week 13
Self-study next week 5 hours
  1. How to start and complete research projects - methodology
Week 14
  1. Next week self-study: planning thesis work Protocol for GHQ12
Self-study next week 5 hours
  1. Orientation standard GHQ12 protocol
  2. form questionnaire
  3. Start to draft protocol for university classes (group work)
Week 15
  1. Experience from last week
  2. The research process in Mahre-Net data collection, analysis of data --> thesis work --> article
Self-study next week 5 hours
  1. Draft a collaborative study protocol for class data collection GHQ12
Week 16
  1. Final exam and hand over of Diploma
  2. Present in a short pptx your study protocol
  3. Show online how to use the "Boolean" type of search words maximum of five references online in Google Scholar or PubMed.
  4. Show how you store the references in the Zotero reference system or another you have installed.
  5. And how you use the reference program combine writing text 100-200 words summary while inserting the references and make a reference list.
  6. Questions of understanding of the subjects from the whole course content will also be applied.
  7. Evaluation of the program

2. Study work

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  1. Research questions and protocol
  2. Questionnaire Google Form
  3. Literature search and review
  4. Pilot test
  5. Data collection
  6. Data analysis and Article/thesis writing
  7. Article/Thesis ready and defense
  8. The scientific publication, conference presentations