On completion of the course the student will be able to:
1. Access evidence based information to inform clinical practice
2. Understand the properties and evaluation of health outcomes at an individual and population level
3. Understand the relationship between the natural history of disease and prognosis and the factors that influence the natural
history of disease
4. Apply concepts relating to the principles and practice of screening for early diagnosis of disease
5. Apply concepts relating to the selection and interpretation of diagnostic tests
6. Express evidence in terms of risk in ways useful to both clinicians and patients
7. Apply the concepts of Health Social Science to clinical practice and research.
8. Analyse the variations in clinical practice and understand ways to reduce variations in clinical practice to improve health
outcomes including the use of clinical guidelines
9. Identify and address relevant ethical issues when undertaking clinical research

The course content includes the following learning modules:
Module 1. Introduction to Evidence-Based Medicine
Module 2. Measurements of Health Outcomes
Module 3. Natural History
Module 4. Screening
Module 5. Diagnostic Tests
Module 6. Applying Measures of Effect to your Patient
Module 7. Health Social Science and Qualitative Measures
Module 8. Variations in Clinical Practice and Clinical Guidelines
Module 9. Ethical and legal Issues in Human Experimentation

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Distance Learning : IT Based
Distance Learning : Paper Based

Email Discussion Group
Self Directed Learning

Self Directed Learning: for 8 hour(s) per Week for Full Term
Email Discussion Group: for 2 hour(s) per Week for Full Term