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MED4302

Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences

18 September 2017 25 August 2024

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This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2016 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.

Monash University

36 points, SCA Band 3, 0.750 EFTSL

Undergraduate - Unit

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Faculty

Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences

Coordinator(s)

Dr Megan Wallace and Dr Tony White

Offered

Clayton

Malaysia

  • Full year (extended) 2016 (Day)
  • Summer semester A to Semester one 2016 (Day)

Synopsis

This unit allows students to undertake a supervised research project aimed at identifying and addressing a gap in medical research knowledge. It is designed to give students a strong foundation in the principles and practice of research. It will also enable students to develop a wide variety of skills including data analysis and communication of medical and scientific ideas in oral presentations and a written thesis. Students will be able to select from a wide range of project proposals that will enable them to pursue a specific area of interest working with their chosen supervisor.

Outcomes

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

  1. Develop and implement research methodology.
  2. Collect data in accordance with the moral, ethical and legal responsibilities of clinical and scientific investigation.
  3. Organise and analyse data, using appropriate statistical tests where appropriate.
  4. Synthesise the relevant literature in relation to the research question.
  5. Present and interpret the data collected and its significance in relation to the existing literature.
  6. Generate defensible conclusions based upon the significance of the research findings.
  7. Demonstrate writing skills that meet the academic standards associated with a thesis.
  8. Communicate research findings to a wider professional audience.
  9. Develop confidence in their ability to develop into a practitioner of evidence-based medicine.

Assessment

Department oral presentation (5%)
Minor thesis (12,000 - 15,000 words) (80%) (Hurdle)
Faculty presentations: Oral presentation (5 minutes) (7.5%) and poster presentation (10 minutes) (7.5%)

Workload requirements

Average weekly workload of 36 hours per week comprised of library searches, reading, preparation of presentations writing research thesis and practical research activities (eg data collection and collation, laboratory work, data analysis and review). The student may require training in technical skills by members of their research group or collaborators, but should then be largely self-directed to collect and analyze their data. The student will interact with and seek feedback from their supervisor about the overall structure of the Thesis, Departmental Oral and Faculty Presentations but the student will largely be self-directed.

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Chief examiner(s)

Dr Megan Wallace

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

Medicine

Co-requisites

Must be enrolled in Bachelor of Medical Science (Honours) degree.

Additional information on this unit is available from the faculty at:

http://www.med.monash.edu.au/bmedsci/