units

PTY4030

Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences

18 September 2017 19 April 2024
Monash University

Undergraduate - Unit

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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24 points, SCA Band 2, 0.500 EFTSL

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LevelUndergraduate
FacultyFaculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences
Organisational UnitDepartment of Physiotherapy
OfferedPeninsula First semester 2015 (Day)
Peninsula Second semester 2015 (Day)
Peninsula Full year 2015 (Day)
Peninsula Second semester to First semester 2015 (Day)
Coordinator(s)Dr Ross Iles

Synopsis

This unit serves the important role of providing dedicated opportunities for students to document the research undertaken during their honours candidature. Students are supported through individualized supervision and the course coordinator to complete either a 10,000 - 12,000 word thesis or (at least 2) manuscripts in publication format.

Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this unit, students should be able to:

  1. Sustain collaboration with an academic supervisor
  2. Develop, implement and document a focused research project
  3. Apply appropriate analysis methods to data collected during the course of the research
  4. Logically interpret results of data analysis
  5. Present the research findings to staff and students and modify the report with consideration of feedback
  6. Prepare and submit the report of the research outcomes either in a 10,000-12,000 word thesis or in publication format
  7. Adhere to project timelines
  8. Archive all relevant documents arising from the conduct of research
  9. Write a final report to the approving ethics committee describing completion of the project.

Assessment

Thesis submission (Summative) (100%)
Presentation to peers (Hurdle)
Professional behaviour in communication (written or verbal) with department staff (Hurdle)

Workload requirements

This 24 CP unit requires supervisor contact and private study totally 48 hours per week over 12 weeks.

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Chief examiner(s)

Dr Ross Iles

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

Physiotherapy

Prerequisites

PTY4010, PTY4020.

Co-requisites

Must be enrolled in course 4516.

Prohibitions

PTY4000 completed as part of the Bachelor of Physiotherapy (Hons) embedded honours programme.