MAP5000 · Research in advanced health professional practice

Overview

This unit is designed to support you to develop or progress a Master's level research proposal for implementation in the post-requisite unit MAP5010 Advanced health practice research project (for the 24 credit point research project) or MAP5001 and MAP5002 (for the 36 credit point minor thesis). Engagement in this unit will enable you to demonstrate your ability to critique the literature and relevant methodological approaches. It will provide health practitioners with the skills to confidently and successfully conduct professional focused research of interest to them. You will achieve a range of outcomes depending upon your pre-requisite pathway of either SRH5003 or GHS5841. Successful completion of MAP5000 and MAP5010 or MAP5000, MAP5001 and MAP5002 with an overall grade of 70 Distinction or above may permit a student to apply for a graduate research program, including the PhD, at Monash University.

Offerings

Assessment

The Handbook does not list a final examination among the assessment items. That is not a guarantee there is none.

Assessment in this unit includes hurdle assessment tasks. Failure of any hurdle assessment task may result in failure of the unit. You must complete two tasks from Assessment Task 1 and one task from Assessment Task 2:

Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.

Requisites

The Handbook lists no prerequisite, corequisite or prohibition for this unit.

Learning outcomes

1. Examine the elements of creating a focused research question which addresses a gap or explores a new area in knowledge.
2. Evaluate the literature to provide a rationale for the proposed research within the context of the healthcare environment.
3. Justify the selection of methods, methodological approaches and research tools, based on critical evaluation of their applicability in healthcare research and alignment with the research question.
4. Evaluate the ethical implications which may arise during the proposed research process.
5. Determine how your own writing skills can be developed to meet academic standards associated with research.
6. Manage time and resources effectively to achieve predetermined goals.

Workload

Minimum 1 hour per week consultation with supervisor either face-to-face or electronically, 11 hours per week directed research activities which may include on-line tasks (project dependent), 12 hours per week for self-directed study.

Student experience, not official rules. Nothing here changes what the Handbook says.