Postgraduate - UnitMFM4016 - Introduction to research methods

This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2015 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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12 points, SCA Band 2, 0.250 EFTSL

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Level	Postgraduate
Faculty	Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences
Organisational Unit	Department of General Practice
Offered	Not offered in 2015
Coordinator(s)	Dr Michal Schneider-Kolsky

Synopsis

This is a compulsory core unit for the Master of Medical Ultrasound course. Students are expected to explore the following areas; introduction to methodology, scope and nature of research in medical imaging, study designs, qualitative versus quantitative 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.

Outcomes

On completion of the unit students should be able to:

Understand the nature and scope of research in Medical Ultrasound;
Understand and be able to implement the methods using in answering questions that arise out of Medical Ultrasound;
Critically appraise the medical literature;
Develop an enthusiasm for doing individual research;
Gain some practical experience in doing research projects.

Assessment

Qualitative research project assignment (3,000 words) (20%)
Critical appraisal assignment (2,000 words) (15%)
Research protocol assignment (2,000 words) (15%)
Statistics assignment (10%)
Questionnaire survey assignment (4,000 words) (40%)

Chief examiner(s)

Dr Michal Schneider-Kolsky

Prerequisites

Completion of the Graduate Diploma in Medical Ultrasound or equivalent.