Overview
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Learning outcomes
Understand the benefits and limitations of evidence based medicine
Perform a comprehensive search of the medical literature
Describe quantitative techniques for data collection and basic analysis for reporting data
Critically appraise studies of therapy, harm, diagnosis and prognosis
Interpret information generated by systematic reviews
Create a research question amenable to rigorous scientific investigation
Design a research protocol
Justify the selection of the research methodology
Identify ethical issues related to the proposed study
Transform information gathered as part of the proposed study into usable data for scientific analysis
Teaching approach
Assessment summary
Assessment in this unit includes hurdle assessment tasks. Failure of any hurdle assessment task may result in failure of the unit.