Project and Scholarship 1 allows the student to draw on the skills and knowledge from previous evidence-based practice units, to create a clinically relevant project proposal. This unit provides students with an opportunity to further develop their investigative, analytical and critical thinking skills by focusing on one of the complex healthcare issues they are confronted with in the pre-professional clinical setting. A key aspect of this unit is the requirement for students to justify their decisions on their selection of topic and their proposed methodology. Students will discuss the application of and critically appraise research methods relevant to a clinical practice question and integrate these into their project proposal.
On successful completion of this unit, students will be able to:
The PICO/SPIDER template report (individual) provides the opportunity for students to refine the research area which they will focus on for the remainder of the unit (and subsequent Project and Scholarship 2 and 3 units). The PICO/SPIDER critical appraisal presentation (individual) requires each student to verbally present, justify and critique their research area/topic in a research poster presentation format. The final Clinical practice-based project proposal (group) requires the students to prepare a research proposal in a written format, which will form their research project going forward into Project Scholarship 2 and 3.
Required readings will be made available on VU Collaborate.
This unit is studied as part of the following course(s):