Overview

It will combine a mixture of lecture presentations, small group tutorials, personal reading, and personal reflective exercises in order to increase the student's research-mindedness and confidence in their skills to improve clinical practice.

Module aims

This module aims to promote your understanding of the importance of best evidence in contemporary clinical practice and its relationship to research. It also aims to provide you with the ability to locate, evaluate, and use best evidence in developing aspects of clinical practice.

Entry requirements

Course entry requirements and registration with a relevant professional body.

Module content

• Politics of health
• Principles of health economics
• Forms of evidence and criteria lists
• Sources of evidence
• Reading and critiquing material
• Recognised critiquing frameworks
• Specific research methods
• Research ethics
• Utilisation of EBP and change management models
• Barriers to implementing change
• Developing protocols and clinical standards.

Teaching and assessment

This module will take a blended approach to teaching & learning by incorporating a range of strategies underpinning the required study hours. These include lectures, discussion, tutorials, essay preparation, & private study.

• Lectures / discussion: 32 hours
• Tutorial Preparation: 2 hours
• Guided Independent Study: 28 hours
• Preparation for Assessment / Wider Reading: 78 hours