Postgraduate - UnitEPM5025 - Human research ethics committees: ethical review of research and research governance

This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2014 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
Organisational Unit	Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine
Offered	Not offered in 2014
Coordinator(s)	Dr Liz Bishop

Synopsis

Assignment to a human research ethics committee. Observation of aspects of their functioning, including understanding the different perspectives of the various members of the committee, and the administrative processes involved in running such a committee.

Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

demonstrate an understanding of the composition of a human research ethics committee, and the roles of each of the different members;
demonstrate an understanding of the practical processes involved in the day-to-day running of a human research ethics committee;

and

critically evaluate the ethical considerations of typical quantitative and qualitative research proposals from the perspective of the different members of a human research ethics committee.