PhD in Clinical Research

OVERVIEW:

Students will learn a correct research approach for studying the causes and the clinical-therapeutic management of diseases.
Specific objectives:

• identify clinical issues and uncertainties in pathogenesis, diagnosis, prognosis and in therapeutic approaches in various diseases;
• correctly apply different research methodologies (randomized trials, longitudinal, cross-sectional or transversal studies and case control studies);
• identify and use biological and genetic markers for studying clinical syndromes, guiding diagnosis and assessing the clinical outcome of different pathologies;
• develop critical skills to analyse and comment clinical research results published or presented at national and international conferences;
• introduce students to independent clinical research methods and to the issues and critical points relating to ethics in clinical research.
  The programme is entirely in English.

LANGUAGE: English