Postgraduate - UnitMEH5011 - Emergency health: evidence based practice

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 Community Emergency Health and Paramedics
Offered	Alfred Hospital First semester 2014 (On-campus block of classes) Alfred Hospital Second semester 2014 (On-campus block of classes)
Coordinator(s)	Paul Jennings

Notes

BLOCK-ON offering is not available to International students

Synopsis

This unit will be taught using a variety of learning and teaching activities. The Unit will be flexible being conducted online using Moodle. Students will be provided with learning material, and will develop an online activities based within the digital media environment. Students will participate in online discussion including peer review of their own and other student's work. Examination, critical appraisal and online exercises are an important teaching, learning and assessment tools. Both on-campus and off-campus students will be able to undertake lectures, seminars and tutorials introducing them evidence based clinical practice. The students will be expected demonstrate their understanding of the application of evidence based clinical practice within their areas of expertise.

Outcomes

By the completion of this unit the student will be able to:

Describe and explain the benefits and limitations of evidence based practice
Perform a comprehensive search of the medical literature
Describe quantitative techniques for data collection and basic analysis for reporting data
Critically appraise studies of therapy, harm, diagnosis and prognosis
Interpret information generated by systematic reviews
Demonstrate the ability to summarise and communicate evidence for professional audiences.

Assessment

Examination (basic statistical methods): 20%
Critical appraisal Task: 40%
On-line exercises - participation and content: 40%

Chief examiner(s)

Paul Jennings

Off-campus attendance requirements

Students will be expected to complete at least 6 hours of internet learning or and a minimum of 6 hours of private study and self-directed learning per week. If completed on-campus sessions, students will be expected to attend all required contact lectures in addition to a minimum of 6 hours of self-directed learning.