Postgraduate - UnitMFM5005 - 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 3, 0.125 EFTSL

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Level	Postgraduate
Faculty	Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences
Organisational Unit	Department of General Practice
Offered	Notting Hill First semester 2014 (Off-campus) Notting Hill Second semester 2014 (Off-campus)
Coordinator(s)	Dr Peter Schattner

Synopsis

This unit will help clarify what evidence based practice (EBP) is, especially in the general practice setting. The unit aims to enhance student skills in finding and applying the latest research evidence. This includes searching evidence databases on the internet, and critically appraising the information retrieved. The course has been written on the assumption that participants have not previously studied research methods or clinical epidemiology, although either of these would be helpful.

Outcomes

At the completion of this unit, students will be able to:

Describe the role and limitations of research evidence in clinical practice
Formulate a well structured l question that arises from clinical practice
Search for evidence based answers to questions, especially via electronic resources
Appraise the relevance and validity of the evidence that was found by the search
Apply the evidence to individual patients taking into account their values and the available resources
Apply evidence based practice skills to improve the quality of clinical practice.

Assessment

Assignment 1: Looking for evidence (1000 words) (30%)
Assignment 2: Appraising the evidence (1000 words) (30%)
Assignment 3: Applying the evidence (1500 words) (40%)

Chief examiner(s)

Peter Schattner

Workload requirements

Online course. 10 hours per weekly session. This takes into account the three assignments, which will take approximately 3 hours each.

This unit applies to the following area(s) of study

Family medicine

Co-requisites

MFM4000 Principles of General Practice
MFM5004 Chronic Disease Management