Evidence Based Practice for Health Professionals

Unit code: HPT2002 | Study level: Undergraduate
12
(Generally, 1 credit = 10 hours of classes and independent study.)
Footscray Park
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Overview
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Overview

Evidence based practice is a requirement for the work ready graduate healthcare practitioners. This unit introduces students to foundation knowledge and skills about the research enterprise to locate and analyse information from the scientific literature. Using case studies, students will learn how to form a focused research question and how to find the best evidence in the literature. Research designs and processes in quantitative, qualitative, and mixed method approaches will be introduced and students will be introduced to appraising the research literature and how to implement research into practice.

Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, students will be able to:

  1. Interpret the process and principles of evidence based practice;
  2. Formulate a focused research question;
  3. Locate and analyse relevant literature from scientific data bases; and
  4. Describe the principles of research methods and interpret basic research statistics.

Assessment

For Melbourne campuses

Assessment type: Test
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Grade: 10%
Test 1 (20mins)
Assessment type: Literature Review
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Grade: 30%
Part 1 - literature review outlining the introduction, focussed question, search strategy (750 words)
Assessment type: Literature Review
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Grade: 40%
Part 2 – literature review outlining key results and discussion (1000 words)
Assessment type: Test
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Grade: 20%
Test 2 (40mins)

Required reading

Required readings will be made available on VU Collaborate.

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