Introducing Open Science in Teaching Health Economic Modelling.

IF 2 Q2 ECONOMICS
PharmacoEconomics Open Pub Date : 2024-05-01 Epub Date: 2024-01-18 DOI:10.1007/s41669-023-00469-0
Xavier G L V Pouwels, Hendrik Koffijberg
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Open Science is gaining ground in all research fields, including health economics and outcomes research (HEOR). However, teaching Open Science is still in its infancy. This paper describes the design, implementation and evaluation of a teaching activity focusing on introducing Open Science during a Master's course during which participants have to develop a discrete event simulation. The teaching activity was organised as a series of lectures introducing different aspects of the Open Science philosophy and practices, such as good software coding practices, version control systems and reproducible research. The participants' increase in Open Science knowledge was elicited through a survey before and after the teaching innovation. After the teaching innovation, participants' knowledge of Open Science increased and they reported an improvement in Open Science-related skills, such as using a script-based statistical software, identifying and re-using open data, and collaborative script development. During the evaluation at the end of the course, the course participants mentioned that the Open Science-related content was interesting but would fit better within a course in which broader research-related content is taught. Based on this feedback, we will most likely narrow the scope of the Open-Science-related content in this course to Open Source Modelling which may better fit the scope of the course. This paper contains links to the teaching activities we developed and other resources which may be used to design teaching activities on Open Science. Herewith, we hope to inspire other teachers in including Open Science into their teaching.

在健康经济模型教学中引入开放科学。
开放科学在包括卫生经济学和成果研究(HEOR)在内的所有研究领域都取得了进展。然而,开放科学教学仍处于起步阶段。本文介绍了一项教学活动的设计、实施和评估,该活动的重点是在硕士课程中介绍开放科学。教学活动以系列讲座的形式组织,介绍了开放科学理念和实践的不同方面,如良好的软件编码实践、版本控制系统和可重复研究。在教学创新前后,通过调查了解了参与者对开放科学知识的增长情况。在教学创新之后,学员们对开放科学的认识有所提高,并报告了他们在开放科学相关技能方面的进步,如使用基于脚本的统计软件、识别和重复使用开放数据以及协作开发脚本。在课程结束时进行的评估中,学员们提到,开放科学相关内容很有趣,但更适合在教授更广泛的研究相关内容的课程中进行。根据这些反馈意见,我们很可能会将本课程中与开放科学相关的内容范围缩小到开源建模,因为这可能更适合本课程的范围。本文包含我们开发的教学活动和其他资源的链接,这些资源可用于设计有关开放科学的教学活动。在此,我们希望能够启发其他教师将开放科学纳入他们的教学中。
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3.50
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0.00%
发文量
64
审稿时长
8 weeks
期刊介绍: PharmacoEconomics - Open focuses on applied research on the economic implications and health outcomes associated with drugs, devices and other healthcare interventions. The journal includes, but is not limited to, the following research areas:Economic analysis of healthcare interventionsHealth outcomes researchCost-of-illness studiesQuality-of-life studiesAdditional digital features (including animated abstracts, video abstracts, slide decks, audio slides, instructional videos, infographics, podcasts and animations) can be published with articles; these are designed to increase the visibility, readership and educational value of the journal’s content. In addition, articles published in PharmacoEconomics -Open may be accompanied by plain language summaries to assist readers who have some knowledge of, but not in-depth expertise in, the area to understand important medical advances.All manuscripts are subject to peer review by international experts. Letters to the Editor are welcomed and will be considered for publication.
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