EVALUATING HEALTH CARE RESEARCH

PTY5EHR

2017

Credit points: 15

Subject outline

In this subject students learn to systematically review literature on health care practices and beliefs. The classes are particularly beneficial for students commencing postgraduate research degrees. Students learn to refine a research question, comprehensively search for relevant scientific literature and other information, evaluate research validity using scientifically endorsed and standardised methods, identify and quantify intervention effects, pool data in meta-analysis and summarise findings. Review outcomes can be applied to inform clinical practices or be integrated into introductory arguments in a research thesis.

School: School of Allied Health

Credit points: 15

Subject Co-ordinator: Tania Pizzari

Available to Study Abroad Students: No

Subject year level: Year Level 5 - Masters

Exchange Students: No

Subject particulars

Subject rules

Prerequisites: N/A

Co-requisites: N/A

Incompatible subjects: N/A

Equivalent subjects: N/A

Special conditions: N/A

Graduate capabilities & intended learning outcomes

01. Effectively source, manage and reference authoritative literature

Activities:: Eight 3 hour lectures, four 1 hour library sessions

02. Critically evaluate literature on a defined topic

Activities:: Eight 3 hour lectures, four 1 hour library sessions

03. Develop methodology for undertaking a systematic review prepared in an academic writing style

Activities:: Four 1 hour library sessions, eight 3 hour lectures

Melbourne, 2017, Semester 1, Day

Overview

Online enrolment: No

Maximum enrolment size: N/A

Enrolment information:

Subject Instance Co-ordinator: Tania Pizzari

Class requirements

Lecture
One 4.0 hours lecture other recurrence and delivered via face-to-face.
"One 4-hour lecture per week in weeks 1-4 and weeks 9-12 of semester 1. 15 non-contact hours per week in weeks 1-13 of semester 1 for report development."

Assessments

Assessment element	Comments	%	ILO*
20 minute verbal presentation, with discussion		30	02
One 3750 word essay		70	01, 02, 03