FISICA STATISTICA E INFORMATICA - channel 1

6 CFU - 1° Semester

Teaching Staff

ELENA BRUNO - Module Physics - FIS/07 - 2 CFU

Email: elena.bruno@dfa.unict.it
Office: Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia via S. Sofia 64 Catania, 2° piano
Phone: 0953785371
Office Hours: Lunedì dalle 09:30 alle 11:30 e Mercoledì dalle 14:30 alle 15:30. Si consiglia di contattare il docente in anticipo (entro la mattina del giorno prima). Impegni istituzionali o personali possono far slittare il ricevimento

LORENZO LUPO - Module Medical Statistics - MED/01 - 2 CFU

Email: l.lupo@policlinico.unict.it
Office: edificio 6 Policlinico G. Rodolico
Phone: 0953781818- 3293178093
Office Hours: su appuntamento

MARIO MASSIMILIANO SALFI - Module Computer science - INF/01 - 2 CFU

Email: massimiliano.salfi@unict.it
Office: Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile e ARchitettura (DICAR)
Phone: non inserito
Office Hours: Per appuntamento (inviare una email)

Learning Objectives

Physics
The course has the stated goal of providing adequate knowledge and understanding of fundamental physical laws that govern biomedical processes, and skills in applying knowledge
Medical Statistics
The course will provide basic elements to let the student be able to describe individual and population based biological events through syntetic indeces. Moreover, the student should be able to identify and use elementary metodologies of analysis of numerical data
Computer science
This course provides the basic theoretical knowledge about the use of a computer, hardware and software, about the applications of informatics in health care settings, as well as providing practical knowledge on the use of an operative system and of the office suite (Word, Excel).

Course Structure

Physics
Frontal lessons
Medical Statistics
Classroom lecturers using blackboard and tracing papers
Computer science
Classroom lessons

Detailed Course Content

Physics
1. Recall and basic introductory notions

2. The mechanics of rigid bodies

3. Fluids and their applications

4. Thermology

5. Electric and magnetic phenomena and their applicatios

6. Wave phenomena and their applications

7. Electromagnetic and corpuscular radiation and applications
Medical Statistics
1. Measurers: numerical, ordinal and nominal

2. Descriptive measurers: central tendency and variability

3. Probability and Bayes Theorem

4. Probability distributions: binomial, Poisson and gaussian

5. Hypothesis tests and their meaning

6. Epidemiology: sensitivity, specificity, predictive values, incidence and prevalence rates
Computer science
1. Introduction to computer science.
2. Encoding and representation of information.
3. Architecture of computer.
4. The operating system and application software.
5. Computer networks and the internet.
6. Introduction to databases.
7. Elements of medical informatics.
8. Word processors: Microsoft Word.
9. Spreadsheets: Microsoft Excel.

Textbook Information

Physics
D. Scannicchio, E. Giroletti "Elementi di Fisica Biomedica" Ed. EdiSES

F. Borsa, A. Lascialfari ''Principi di Fisica per indirizzo biomedico e farmaceutico'' Ed. EdiSES

A. Giambattista, B. Richardson, R. Richardson "Fisica generale" Ed. Graw Hill
Medical Statistics
J. Fowler, P. Jarvis, M. Chevannes "Statistica per le professioni sanitarie" Ed. EdiSES

Other elementary statistic texbooks
Computer science
Teacher’s slides and any European Computer Driving Licence books.

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