Postgraduate Course: Evidence Based Medicine for Rural Family Medicine in rural settings (GLHE11029)
Course Outline
| School | Deanery of Molecular, Genetic and Population Health Sciences |
College | College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
| Course type | Online Distance Learning |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | This course will build students' knowledge on how to interpret and analyse knowledge and apply knowledge into clinical practice. Students will learn how to ask and answer clinical questions in their practice and strengthen their interpretive skills in quantifying uncertainties in practice with probabilities.
The course will focus on developing tools for searching, and organising information, for interpreting and using information and for developing processes for managing and applying global evidence into contextually appropriate practice. |
| Course description |
Week 1 Understanding concepts of EBM
Week 2 Applying EBM in practice - case studies
Week 3 Understanding critical analysis and building essential research skills
Week 4 Applying EBM in practice - case studies
Week 5 Analysing and Critiquing information systems and building essential research skills
Week 6 Applying EBM in practice - case studies
Week 7 Relating clinical decision making to clinical outcomes and building essential research skills
Week 8 Applying EBM in practice - case studies
Week 9 Understanding the tools for extracting information and building essential research skills
Week 10 Summarising learning
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2017/18, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Quota: None |
| Course Start |
Flexible |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
200
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Lecture Hours 40,
Seminar/Tutorial Hours 40,
Online Activities 40,
Formative Assessment Hours 20,
Summative Assessment Hours 20,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
36 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
The course will be examined through:
Examinable Case reviews including online presentations and reports 40%
Written Case Critique ( 2000 words) 60%
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| Feedback |
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| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
The overall aim of the course is to enable students to understand the concepts of evidence based medicine and the process of application of theory into practice in rural low income settings where high income or westernised evidence based interpretative materials are less sensitive.
On completion of this course, the student will:
1. Be familiar with how to use research information to inform decision making in rural practice for family medicine
2. Be able to relate clinical decision making to clinical outcomes
3. Understand the significance of critically analysing day to day practice
4. Be confident to discriminate between strong and weak evidence, with skills to appraise and evaluate different forms of evidence
5. Be able to manage the multiple and alternative information giving systems that rural family medical practitioners are exposed to including pharmaceutical and alternative medical systems
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Not entered |
| Keywords | Family Medicine,Evidence based medicine |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Robin Ramsay
Tel:
Email: |
Course secretary | Ms Michelle Hart
Tel: (0131 6)50 6525
Email: |
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