Postgraduate Course: Critical Reading in Health and Social Care 1 (ISSH11018)

Course Outline
School	School of Health in Social Science	College	College of Humanities and Social Science
Credit level (Normal year taken)	SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate)	Availability	Not available to visiting students
SCQF Credits	10	ECTS Credits	5
Summary	This course is offered to online learners on our MSc programmes concerning Health and Social Care. This Critical 10 credit course allows students the opportunity to explore a topic in depth with associated research and literature. The topic will be relevant to their workplace in their own country or fit with their professional development plans. It will cover an area not substantially included in their core and option courses within the Programme. The topic will be selected in agreement with the course organiser who will supervise the student's progress. Topic may include (but is not restricted to): Digital Health Telehealth Electronic health records Electronic prescribing systems Implementation and adoption processes Evaluations of complex interventions Sociotechnical evaluation approaches International approaches to implementing computerised healthcare systems Students may choose a topic from this course as their dissertation topic with the agreement of the Programme Director. This may help the student by enabling them to continue researching an area of interest and relevance within their organisation.
Course description	Not entered

Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites		Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations		Other requirements	None

Course Delivery Information
Not being delivered

Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to: Demonstrate a detailed understanding of a substantial body of literature and research on a topic relevant to the MSc programme and their local context Reflect critically on the empirical and theoretical content related to their chosen topic Demonstrate an understanding and critical evaluation of the topic Demonstrate the ability to source literature Synthesise the available literature to develop new arguments