Description
This course is designed to prepare the students as critical and effective consumers of research. The course will expose students to a) the analysis of elements of the scientific process namely: processes involved in the development of the introduction, literature review, methods, results, discussion and the abstract and b) the application of the scientific process in various categories of scientific reports (the case reports, single case study experimental design as well as traditional experimental methods). Specific guidelines will be used to analyze and comment on identified scientific papers. The use of the scientific process in writing case reports will be emphasized.