PDTY4001Evidence in Professional Reasoning for Podiatric Medicine (Honours)

Course handbook

Description

In this course, students incorporate previous research and biostatistics knowledge to develop new skills for using evidence to inform all aspects of their professional practice. Evidence-based practice uses an enquiry led approach to manage expanding and uncertain knowledge by formulating answerable questions, effectively searching literature, critically appraising evidence validity and results, and to assess its significance in clinical practice and healthcare decision-making. Students will incorporate evidence in communication and shared decision-making processes for patient scenarios relevant to their program. Students will embark on research training through studying the theory and application of research methods to honours research in their chosen field and practising the skills to analyse evidence in the health sciences.

Availability

Not currently offered.

Learning outcomes

On successful completion of the course students will be able to:

1. Conduct sensitive and specific PICO search strategies

2. Identify key classification, design and result information from research studies

3. Critically appraise validity and clinical significance of research

4. Justify value of evidence according to its level, quality and applicability

5. Incorporate evidence into clinical reasoning and decision making

6. Negotiate evidence-informed shared decision-making

7. Formulate an appropriate design and research protocol for the honours investigation in conjunction with the honours supervisor

8. Analyse the organisational and ethical issues of research in health practice settings, and practically apply this to the honours research topic

9. Justify the selection of specific data analysis techniques for use in the student’s research question

Content

Exploring Reasons for Evidence-based Practice (EBP) 

• Management of professional disagreement, situation effects and bias 
• Management of information overload 
• Management of information uncertainty 

Appraising evidence in practice for studies of interventions, diagnostic tests, aetiology, prognosis, and experiences 

• Relevance 
• Strength of evidence 
• Statistical and clinical significance 
• Generalisability, Applicability and Usefulness 
• Grading body of evidence 
• PICO framework 

Professional reasoning 

• Relative reasoning between evidence, expertise, patient perspectives and practice context 
• Limitations of EBP paradigm 
• Communicating evidence to clients 
• Evidence-informed shared decision-making 
• Evaluation of professional reasoning 

Honours research development knowledge and skills 

• Transition Issues: Becoming A clinical health science Honours researcher and understanding the Honours research training process 
• Working with your supervisor and developing good research practice skills 
• Scholarly writing and using library resources 
• Research design of Honours Projects 
• Ethics of research in the health sciences 
• Developing a written Honours research proposal 
• Data analysis techniques and managing data in Honours Projects 

Requisite

Students must be active in program [50022] Bachelor of Podiatric Medicine (Honours).

Students must have successfully completed HLSC4120 and PDTY3028.

Assessment items

Report: Report (Search Strategy)

Viva Voce: Viva Voce (Critically Appraised Topic)
Compulsory Requirement: Pass requirement - Must pass this assessment item to pass the course.

Proposal / Plan: Research Proposal

Formal Examination: Final Examiniation

Course outline

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