POM5106 · Perioperative medicine capstone project

Overview

This unit is designed to enable you to successfully complete a small - scale research informed project identified and approved in the unit POM5105 and intended to resolve an issue within the practice of perioperative medicine. The unit enables you to demonstrate your ability to synthesise your learning across the units comprising the course and apply it to the resolution of work - based challenges. Engagement in this unit will also facilitate the achievement by students of a range of transferable research informed skills of value and relevance to the practice setting and the advancement of the discipline.

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

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

Learning outcomes

1. Integrate and consolidate learning from previous units in the resolution of practice based issues and challenges.
2. Synthesise critical arguments in relation to the available relevant literature about an specific aspect of perioperative medicine.
3. Critically analyse the multifaced nature of implementing changes to current norms and standards of practice.
4. Generate defensible conclusions in respect to the significance of the research findings.
5. Communicate findings to peers that adhere to the academic standards associated with scientific communication.

Workload

This unit will be on-line only. The workload requirement will be 10-12 hours per week (on average). Weekly workload consists of continued development of a project, researching relevant current evidence, compiling a comprehensive and fully referenced literature review relevant to the project topic, and completion of the capstone project. You will be expected to show evidence of your progress via a learning journey platform (PebblePad).

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