This unit extends students' skills in understanding the ambiguities and complexity of healthcare through quantitative and qualitative research methods and interpretation. Student skills in locating, retrieving and reviewing peer reviewed journal articles are applied to specific osteopathic patient cases.
On successful completion of this unit, students will be able to:
In the Assessment Task 1 (Quizzes 1 & 2), students demonstrate knowledge of quantitative and qualitative research methods.
In the Assessment Task 2 (Report), students develop a PICO clinical question, a search strategy based on Cochrane review methods and conduct systematic literature search. The assessment requires students to access articles and export citations into a reference manager software, and to develop a literature review which answers a clinical question of their choice.
In Assessment Task 3 (Exercise), students answer questions relating to qualitative statistics and conduct a coding exercise, with interpretation of their findings.
RECOMMENDED TEXTS: Resources will be made available via the VU Collaborate system. The following supplementary texts are referred to regularly. Straus, S., et al. (2018) Evidence-Based Medicine. How to Practice and Teach EBM 5th ed. London: Elsevier Hulley, S.B., et al. (2013) Designing Clinical Research 4th ed. Philadelphia: Lippincott, William & Wilkins Aron, A., Coups, E. & Aron, E. (2013) Statistics for Psychology, 6th ed New York: Pearson
This unit is studied as part of the following course(s):