VU21880 - Conduct research relating to myotherapy clinical practice

Unit code: VU21880 | Study level: TAFE

Credit points

N/A

Location

Footscray Park

Werribee

Prerequisites

N/A

Overview

This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to source and evaluate relevant research information and apply their findings to a myotherapy clinical practice.

Assessment

For Melbourne campuses

Assessment tasks will be designed to reinforce and extend knowledge and skill competence within set and controlled parameters in accordance with each unit’s learning outcomes and performance criteria requirements, including the setting of work based practical application tasks designed to provide evidence of competence outcomes, within periodic and scheduled timelines.

Students will be expected to demonstrate the following required skills:

access and critically evaluate reference materials;
identify information needs and plan efficient information gathering strategies;
access and interpret up-to-date information;
record details of research findings;
critically evaluate research data gathered;
identify and access a range of scholarly, non-scholarly, new and established information sources;
interpret common terminology used in statistical analysis;
prioritise usefulness of information to the treatment of individual cases, and;
incorporate relevant research information within myotherapy clinical practice.

Students will also be expected to demonstrate the following knowledge:

National Health & Medical Research Council (NHMRC) hierarchy of research evidence;
relevant reference works and information sources;
research issues and their uses, and;
research methodologies commonly used in medical, allied health and complementary medicine research.

Required reading

The qualified trainer and assessor will provide teaching and learning materials as required in the form of workbooks produced by the Polytechnic and/or via the Polytechnic e-learning system.