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 formulate clinical questions in their practice, find potential answers to those questions and analyse the quality of the evidence.
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.
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| Course description |
1. Introduction to EBM
2. Clinical questions and finding the evidence
3. Finding and critically appraising journal articles
4. Statistics for critical appraisal of journal articles
5. Applying evidence in patient care
6. Cohort studies, case control studies and studies evaluating diagnostic test and screening
7. Worked example - Evidence Based Medicine in Cardiovascular disease
8. Performing a literature review
9. Evidence based clinical guidelines
10. Criticisms of EBM
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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:
Three assessed exercises on application of techniques outlined in course material (30%)
Written assignment, outlining disease management guidelines, developed through techniques learned in the course (70%)
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| Feedback |
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| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Be familiar with how to use research information to inform decision making in rural practice for family medicine
- Be able to relate clinical decision making to clinical outcomes
- Understand the significance of critically analysing day to day practice
- Be confident to discriminate between strong and weak evidence, with skills to appraise and evaluate different forms of evidence
- 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 |
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| Keywords | Family Medicine,Evidence based medicine |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Robin Ramsay
Tel:
Email: |
Course secretary | Ms Michelle Hart
Tel: (0131 6)50 6525
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