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Unit of Study HLTH4001 - Advanced Topics in Health Science Research (2022)

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Unit description

Provides students with an appreciation of the contemporary health science research landscape, identifying research needs in improving health care and developing research questions. Skill is acquired in systematically locating, appraising and synthesising published research.

Unit content

  • The logic and purpose of inquiry
  • Developing research questions
  • Translational research
  • Literature review
  • Critical appraisal of research
  • Advanced bibliographic search
  • Reference management

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Learning outcomes

Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

design and conduct a comprehensive literature search on a research topic

compare and appraise research literature and methodologies relevant to the research topic

synthesise the existing knowledge on the research topic

demonstrate knowledge of the principles and practices of the health science research topic

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