Postgraduate - UnitMPH2036 - Clinical trials

This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2012 only. For students planning to study the unit, please refer to the unit indexes in the the current edition of the Handbook. If you have any queries contact the managing faculty for your course or area of study.

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6 points, SCA Band 2, 0.125 EFTSL

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Level	Postgraduate
Faculty	Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences
Offered	Alfred Hospital Second semester 2012 (Day) Alfred Hospital Second semester 2012 (Off-campus)
Coordinator(s)	Professor C Reid

Synopsis

This unit will equip students with the skills for the design, implementation and analysis of randomised controlled clinical trials. It will enable student to formulate research question, select and recruite study subjects, compare groups, conduct randomisation, interpret findings, manage outcomes and consider issues of ethics, budget and quality assurance.

Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

design a protocol for a randomised controlled clinical trial;
appraise a protocol of a randomised controlled clinical trial;
describe the ethical and regulatory process required for the conduct of a clinical trial.

Assessment

Written assignments (80%)
Online assessment (20%)

Chief examiner(s)

Professor Chris Reid

Contact hours

15 Contact hours over 2 days.

Off-campus attendance requirements

15 contact hours over 2 days

Prerequisites

MPH1040 and MPH1041
MPH2013
This unit assumes a basic understanding of the principles of informed consent

Co-requisites

MPH2013

Additional information on this unit is available from the faculty at:

http://www.med.monash.edu.au/epidemiology/pgrad