MFM2006

Introduction to research methods

(MED)

Professor L Piterman

12 points + off campus distributed learning + Approximately 10 hours per week

Synopsis: This is a compulsory core unit for the Grad.Dip in Family Medicine and MFM(Clin) courses. Students are expected to explore the following areas; introduction to methodology, history of general practice, scope and nature of general practice research, study designs, qualitative versus quantitative research, the epidemiology basis of general practice research, descriptive, observational and experimental studies, getting started, including literature surveys, critical appraisal of journal articles, research protocols, descriptive and inferential statistics, data analysis, questionnaire construction and survey techniques and writing papers and giving presentations on research.

Assessment: Students will be expected to complete 4 written assignments plus an MCQ