| Unit name | Digital Health Project |
|---|---|
| Unit code | SEMTM0035 |
| Credit points | 60 |
| Level of study | M/7 |
| Teaching block(s) |
Academic Year (weeks 1 - 52) |
| Unit director | Dr. Men |
| Open unit status | Not open |
| Units you must take before you take this one (pre-requisite units) |
None |
| Units you must take alongside this one (co-requisite units) |
None |
| Units you may not take alongside this one |
None |
| School/department | School of Engineering Mathematics and Technology |
| Faculty | Faculty of Science and Engineering |
Why is this unit important?
This mandatory unit is a unique opportunity to tackle real-world health challenges and build essential skills for a career in healthcare and technology. Working in multidisciplinary teams, you will go through the entire journey of product development for a health technology; this journey will include conducting market research, assessing end-user needs (for example, the needs of patients or doctors), analysing and interpreting the results from a trial, and handling communications and product support after launch. You will gain experience with co-designing solutions that will benefit the health of patients and with working with complex healthcare data. This project will also give you opportunities to demonstrate your problem-solving, teamwork, and leadership skills in digital health, and to present your work to experts in the field in a range of formats.
How does this unit fit into your programme of study
This must-pass unit serves as a culmination of your prior learning in healthcare, technology, and data analysis, integrating and applying skills developed across the program. This unit will challenge you to apply your knowledge of quantitative and qualitative research methods to a real-world product development project. Through collaborative work, you will expand your technical expertise and develop an understanding of the complex landscape surrounding healthcare technology.
An overview of content
Topics covered in this unit will include:
How will students, personally, be different as a result of the unit
Throughout this unit, you will develop key skills in collaborative problem-solving, data analysis, and health technology design. As a result of this unit, you will be better equipped to conduct thorough market research, co-design solutions for patients, and analyse data to ensure that your work is both impactful and ethically responsible. Additionally, you will attain an ability to communicate across the fields of healthcare, engineering, and data science; you will demonstrate your understanding of the critical phases of health technology development; and you will become ready to apply this expertise in academia or industry, preparing you for meaningful roles in health innovation, data science, and health research.
Learning outcomes
On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to
This project will draw on taught materials from units taken in TB1, TB2 and TB4. In addition, workshops will be conducted throughout the project to address key skills, including crisis handling and data analysis. You will have regular facilitator-led sessions, to support student directed reflection and learning.
Tasks which help you learn and prepare you for summative tasks (formative):
Throughout the unit, you will engage in formative activities designed to build skills for the summative assessment. A major part of these formative activities will be in the form of regular facilitator-led group meetings, during which facilitators will provide feedback on your engagement and teamwork, helping you identify areas for improvement before the summative tasks.
Tasks which count towards your unit mark (summative):
The summative assessment for this unit consists of a group dissertation and an individual presentation.
The group dissertation will take the form of a portfolio of deliverables, which you will work on collectively across the duration of the project. Individual student engagement and contribution will be monitored through continuous observation by the facilitator and through peer evaluation; these observations will be used to assign an individual mark for each student.
You will also present your personal contributions to the project, including a description of your technical input and reflections on your role in teamwork and mentoring. The individual presentation is followed by a Q&A. The presentation and the Q&A together will be used to assess the individual presentation mark.
You will receive an individual mark based on:
When assessment does not go to plan:
In the case of required reassessment, where you were unable to complete your contribution to the group project, we would enable you to complete the necessary project deliverables but individually rather than in a group format. You would be given a new brief for the necessary project phase/s, with the brief designed so that it can be completed by an individual student.
If this unit has a Resource List, you will normally find a link to it in the Blackboard area for the unit. Sometimes there will be a separate link for each weekly topic.
If you are unable to access a list through Blackboard, you can also find it via the Resource Lists homepage. Search for the list by the unit name or code (e.g. SEMTM0035).
How much time the unit requires
Each credit equates to 10 hours of total student input. For example a 20 credit unit will take you 200 hours
of study to complete. Your total learning time is made up of contact time, directed learning tasks,
independent learning and assessment activity.
See the University Workload statement relating to this unit for more information.
Assessment
The assessment methods listed in this unit specification are designed to enable students to demonstrate the named learning outcomes (LOs). Where a disability prevents a student from undertaking a specific method of assessment, schools will make reasonable adjustments to support a student to demonstrate the LO by an alternative method or with additional resources.
The Board of Examiners will consider all cases where students have failed or not completed the assessments required for credit.
The Board considers each student's outcomes across all the units which contribute to each year's programme of study. For appropriate assessments, if you have self-certificated your absence, you will normally be required to complete it the next time it runs (for assessments at the end of TB1 and TB2 this is usually in the next re-assessment period).
The Board of Examiners will take into account any exceptional circumstances and operates
within the Regulations and Code of Practice for Taught Programmes.
