MED5101 · Applied studies in medical research and professional practice

Overview

This unit will provide you with the opportunity to be engaged in activities and tasks which contribute to a research study or an issue in professional practice. You will be placed with an academic, research or professional practice group to undertake an intensive scholarly experience in an area of research or professional practice relevant to medical science or clinical practice. An appropriately qualified and experienced supervisor will identify a program and work with you to ensure that appropriate learning opportunities and tasks are undertaken. Activities may encompass definition of the problem/question/task, identification of an appropriate theoretical model, development and documentation of a relevant methodology, data collection and analysis and production of reports. You will prepare oral and written presentations to communicate information relating the area of work, the nature of their specific tasks and the outcomes of their activities to relevant audiences.

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.

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

Requisites

Learning outcomes

1. Utilise specialist knowledge and skills to justify the need for a research, teaching or professional practice issue to be investigated or evaluated
2. Devise and implement a plan for the project and identify key outputs
3. Review, synthesise and critically appraise peer reviewed literature in a specific area of medical science, education or professional practice
4. Practice, and demonstrate an understanding of, academic integrity, research integrity and ethical behaviour in the context of medical science and/or delivery of care
5. Collect and categorise information related to a key question relevant to the community and to medicine
6. Analyse and summarise information related to a key question relevant to the community and to medicine
7. Justify approaches to solve a complex problem relevant to their project
8. Communicate critical arguments or key concepts and findings to a professional audience in oral and written formats

Workload

This 12 credit point unit will be undertaken during a full-time 6-week placement. There will not be any other concurrent assessment or attendance requirements, so the expectation is that of a full-time load of 48h face-to-face and private study per week.

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