Overview 2020
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This course may not be available to international students. Please see the list of distance courses (i.e. online and taken outside Australia) that are offered to international students
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This course is designed for students who already hold a bachelor's degree in any clinical specialty to prepare them for conducting research into issues facing health services. It is part of the University's translational research agenda, which recognises that staff conducting applied research in a health or human services facility need a solid foundation in both the wider context of quality improvement and reform and in research methods that support the credibility of this research and its application to the broader community of practice. Dissemination to this community will also be supported by providing students with an opportunity to draft papers for eventual publication.
Course objectives
- To understand and apply the principles of health care and human service improvement
- To understand the broad social, political and economic context of service provision
- To understand and apply the principles of translational research
- To prepare an ethics approval application.
- To understand and apply an appropriate research methodology.
- To appropriately scope a localised research project.
- To conduct a relevant and critical literature review and develop a rationale for their proposed topic.
- To conduct a pilot study, if relevant, and to conduct the research project itself.
- To evaluate the outcomes of the project.
Career outcomes
Enhancement of their role as professionals able to evaluate, produce and integrate evidence into practice.
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