| Unit name | Evidence-Based Healthcare |
|---|---|
| Unit code | AUDIM0006 |
| Credit points | 20 |
| Level of study | M/7 |
| Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 2 (weeks 13 - 24) |
| Unit director | Ms. Hoyle |
| Open unit status | Not open |
| Pre-requisites |
None |
| Co-requisites |
None |
| School/department | Centre for Hearing and Balance Studies |
| Faculty | Faculty of Social Sciences and Law |
This unit aims to equip practitioners with the skills to make a change in practice and / or service delivery based on clinical evidence, and will inform the dissertation.
Aims:
This unit aims to equip practitioners with the skills to make a change in practice and / or service delivery based on clinical evidence, and will inform the dissertation.
Participants will demonstrate self-direction and originality in tackling and solving problems, and the ability to act autonomously in planning an evidence-based change within their service. This will be achieved through formulating a strategy to change an area of practice in the light of new evidence and identifying how that strategy will be evaluated.
Participants will be taught through lectures, small group work and peer-led seminars.
Participants will be assessed for their originality in the application of knowledge, together with a practical understanding of how established techniques of research and enquiry are used to create and interpret knowledge in the field of audiological rehabilitation.
This will be through submission of a course portfolio which will include a summary of:
Sackett, Richardson, Rosenberg and Haynes, (1997) Evidence-Based Healthcare. Churchill Livingstone
http://www.jr2.ox.ac.uk/bandolier/learnzone.html
Harris, M and Taylor, G (2003), Medical Statistics Made Easy. Taylor & Francis http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/315/7104/364
