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Unit of Study PBHL6005 - Critical Review in Health (2025)

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Unit Snapshot

  • Unit type

    PG Coursework Unit

  • Credit points

    12

  • Faculty/College

    Faculty of Health

  • Placement

    No

Unit description

Provides students with the opportunity to broaden and deepen their understanding of literature analysis and research design in relation to an area relevant to their professional practice. Students will produce a critical literature review that supports the need for either future research or practice improvement.

Unit content

  • Using literature to refine problems and propose further research or practice improvement
  • Searching literature systematically
  • Analysing, refining and managing search results
  • Presenting results
  • Critique and discussion
  • Providing rationale and justification for the next step

Availabilities

Location Domestic International
SCU Online
Summer Term
Term4
Summer Term
Term4

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:

develop a research question and problem statement to guide critical examination of an area of interest, located within health, social, and community care setting

discern between, and critique, the evidence supporting further research and practice improvement in health, social, and community services

analyse, refine and manage results of a systematic literature search

provide an evidence-based rationale for further research or practice improvement in health, social and community services

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