Project and Scholarship 1 allows the student to draw on the skills and knowledge from previous evidence-based practice units, to create a clinically relevant project proposal. This unit provides students with an opportunity to further develop their investigative, analytical and critical thinking skills by focusing on one of the complex healthcare issues they are confronted with in the pre-professional clinical setting. A key aspect of this unit is the requirement for students to justify their decisions on their selection of topic and their proposed methodology. Students will discuss the application of research methods relevant to a clinical practice question and integrate these into their project proposal.
On successful completion of this unit, students will be able to:
Formulate a clinical practice-based research question informed by relevant evidence;
Propose methodological process for a feasible clinical practice-based research project; and
Articulate and Justify the choice of clinical practice-based research project methodology using high level communication and translation skills.
The first report assessment task (individual) provides the opportunity for students to refine the research area which they will focus on for the remainder of the unit (and subsequent Project and Scholarship units: HMO7008-9). The second assessment task, requires each student to verbally present and justify their research area/topic in a research poster presentation format. The final proposal assessment (group) requires the students to prepare a research proposal in a written format, which will form their research project going forward into Project Scholarship 2&3 (HMO7008-9). To ensure that students meet the required learning outcomes, each student’s contributions to the project will be evaluated by both the student group and by the teaching staff.
Required readings will be made available on VU Collaborate.
This unit is studied as part of the following course(s):