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Postgraduate Course: Professional Skills in Drug Discovery (PGBI11074)

Course Outline
SchoolSchool of Biological Sciences CollegeCollege of Science and Engineering
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) AvailabilityNot available to visiting students
SCQF Credits10 ECTS Credits5
Summary**Online distance learning course**

In the future, Drug Discovery will involve more multinational collaboration while face-to-face meetings will decrease. The internet will be increasingly used to communicate. This distance learning course necessarily models this world before it happens. Therefore in learning how to cope with the demands of distance learning, students will be ahead of their colleagues. This course will be designed around a wide view of the global problems of the decreasing rate of discovery of new drugs. As well as giving the students a perspective on the field they are studying, the tasks set will involve skills needed in multinational collaboration.
Course description Not entered
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Course Delivery Information
Academic year 2017/18, Not available to visiting students (SS1) Quota:  None
Course Start Semester 1
Course Start Date 18/09/2017
Timetable Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) Total Hours: 100 ( Online Activities 20, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 78 )
Assessment (Further Info) Written Exam 0 %, Coursework 100 %, Practical Exam 0 %
Additional Information (Assessment) 50% = Group Assessment (including maximum 20% variation for Peer Assessment of contribution)

50% = Electronic Portfolio (comprising of learning log and contribution to skills profile)
Feedback Not entered
No Exam Information
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
  1. - Appreciate how to act on feedback from peers, and to give it too;
  2. - Keep an electronic portfolio for the purposes of professional development;
  3. - Reflect on any weaknesses in generic skills (e.g. scientific writing, English language, use of spreadsheets etc) and to formulate action plans to improve them;
  4. - Use Web 2.0 tools to communicate and collaborate within a group and appreciate the dynamics of group interactions and acquire strategies to cope when this might not be working well;
  5. - Use relevant bibliographic resources in the subject and have a critical appreciation of differing search algorithms; - Use productivity tools to manage time and work efficiently.
Reading List
None
Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills Not entered
KeywordsPSinDD
Contacts
Course organiserDr Paul Mclaughlin
Tel: (0131 6)50 7060
Email:
Course secretaryMrs Claire Black
Tel: (0131 6)50 8637
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