Curricular internship in clinical research

• Autor(a) principal: Almeida, João Pedro da Silva
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10773/16581
• topic: Biomedicina farmacêutica; Investigação médica - Relatórios de estágio; Ensaios clínicos; Análise de dados

This report presents my internship experience at the Clinical Pharmacology Unit where I could participate in research projects, mainly as a medical writer, data manager, project manager and monitor of observational studies and at the Neurological Clinical Research Unit, where I could work in coordination of clinical trials. The internship is part of the curricular activities of the second year of the Masters in Pharmaceutical Biomedicine, University of Aveiro. The internship took place from 15th September 2015 to June 30th, 2016. This report will address the activities that I performed, namely the coordinating activities of clinical trials and observational studies, or activities related to medical writing. Throughout the internship, I had the opportunity to put into practice the knowledge acquired during the master's degree, and deepen my knowledge of the coordination activities of clinical and observational trials. In scientific writing component, I was able to improve my scientific writing skills, to know how to develop a systematic review and understand some of the concepts of meta-analyses. In conclusion, the internship allowed me to put into practice the knowledge acquired in the University, and served as an extremely valuable learning source and for professional and personal growth.