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PTY4000

Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences

18 September 2017 26 April 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

12 points, SCA Band 2, 0.250 EFTSL

Undergraduate - Unit

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Faculty

Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences

Organisational Unit

Department of Physiotherapy

Coordinator(s)

Dr Ross Iles

Offered

Peninsula

  • Full year 2016 (Day)

Synopsis

The 12 credit point Honours Thesis subject extends research opportunities provided to students in the Bachelor of Physiotherapy degree by providing individualised and group supervision in developing a comprehensive research report (10,000 - 12,000 words). Students will have opportunities to advance their understanding of data analysis methods required to interpret data collected during the course of the research, prepare and present their findings to staff and students and refine a report for assessment. The thesis will contribute 70% to the final honours grade.

Outcomes

  1. Execute a research project in consultation 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. Communicate the key aspects of the research project to a scientific audience;
  6. Evaluate and synthesise the findings of the research project with the previously executed systematic review and existing literature;
  7. Prepare a written report of the research outcomes in a thesis;
  8. Determine and follow appropriate archiving procedures for all relevant documents arising from the conduct of research;
  9. Prepare a final report to the approving ethics committee describing completion of the project.

Assessment

Hurdle - Professional conduct: Students are required to demonstrate professional behaviour in communication (written or verbal) with department staff and clinical educators in order to pass the unit.

Presentation of the research findings to staff and students (hurdle requirement) and the completion of a thesis (10,000 - 12,000 words) (100%) (Summative assessment)

Workload requirements

Students are required to attend fortnightly research seminars during Semesters One and Two when they are not on clinical placements. This subject runs for 12 weeks in each Semester (total 24 weeks).

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Chief examiner(s)

Dr Ross Iles

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

Physiotherapy

Prerequisites

PTY2000, PTY3000.

Co-requisites

Must be enrolled in course M3003.

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

http://www.monash.edu.au/study/coursefinder/course/3891/