Overview

Upon successful completion of this unit, you are eligible for 12 Credit Points (RPL) for admission to the Master of Clinical Emergency Medicine (M6023) offered by Alfred Health Emergency – specialists in emergency medical education. This unit has been created in collaboration with the Alfred Emergency and Trauma Centre for … For more content click the Read More button below.

Offerings

S2-01-ALFRED-ONLINE

Contacts

Chief Examiner(s)

Professor Peter Cameron

Unit Coordinator(s)

Professor Peter Cameron

Learning outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, you should be able to:
1.

Understand the benefits and limitations of evidence based medicine

2.

Perform a comprehensive search of the medical literature

3.

Describe quantitative techniques for data collection and basic analysis for reporting data

4.

Critically appraise studies of therapy, harm, diagnosis and prognosis

5.

Interpret information generated by systematic reviews

6.

Create a research question amenable to rigorous scientific investigation

7.

Design a research protocol

8.

Justify the selection of the research methodology

9.

Identify ethical issues related to the proposed study

10.

Transform information gathered as part of the proposed study into usable data for scientific analysis

Teaching approach

Online learning

Assessment summary

Assessment in this unit includes hurdle assessment tasks. Failure of any hurdle assessment task may result in failure of the unit.

Assessment

Assignment 1 (2 x 1,000 words)
Assignment 2 (2 x 2,000 words & 10 min oral presentation)
Online exercises participation & content (6,000 words)
Attendance at four block days

Workload requirements

Workload

Learning resources

Required resources