Course Title: Research Methods - Manual Medicine

Part A: Course Overview

Course Title: Research Methods - Manual Medicine

Credit Points: 12.00

Course Code	Campus	Career	School	Learning Mode	Teaching Period(s)
MATH2125	Bundoora Campus	Postgraduate	150H Health Sciences	Face-to-Face	Sem 1 2006, Sem 1 2007, Sem 1 2008, Sem 2 2008, Sem 1 2009, Sem 1 2010, Sem 1 2011, Sem 1 2012, Sem 1 2013

Course Coordinator: Dr Ray Myers

Course Coordinator Phone: +61 3 99257263

Course Coordinator Email: ray.myers@rmit.edu.au

Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities

The pre-requisites are the equivalence of the BAppSc(Complementary Medicine)-Osteopathy stream undergraduate program

Course Description

It will give a background to the student so that they may be able to apply these principles, knowledge, skills and methods to clinical practice and clinical decision making in relation to patient assessment, diagnosis, treatment, management and prognosis. The course will provide grounding in the fundamentals of clinical research design and interpretation. This course differs from many other “clinical” research method courses through emphasis i on research in manual medicine and addresses some of the specific issues to research in this area, such as difficulties with inter-rater reliability and the inability to conduct randomized double blinded clinical trials
The Course consists of two modules:
• Statistics & Epidemiology
• Scientific Writing &Critical Literature Review

Objectives/Learning Outcomes/Capability Development

Capability Level 3: This level requires the application and integration of previous levels with the concurrent courseware into expanded clinical problems.
Statistics & Epidemiology
This module will introduce clinical epidemiology, clinical research design and biostatistics to students in the clinical sciences. It provides knowledge and skills required to assess and interpret clinical and other health related research literature. It will also give a background to the student so that they may be able to apply these principles, knowledge, skills and methods to clinical practice and clinical decision making in relation to patient assessment, diagnosis, treatment, management and prognosis. Finally, the course will provide a grounding in the fundamentals of clinical research design and interpretation.

Scientific Writing &Critical Literature Review
Students revisit the purpose and structure of scientific writing applicable in the clinical disciplines. Students use these skills to analyse selected articles as a basis for undertaking critical literature reviews.

Overview of Learning Activities

Lecture
Tutorial

Overview of Learning Resources

All lecture material involving power point presentations will be available on the website http:\\users.cs.rmit.edu.au\ma\math2125

Overview of Assessment

Assignment