| Course Description |
The main focus of this module is a selected topic in the area of community or public health, clinical practice or basic health or environmental science. Students will carry out supervised research for a period of 7 months in which they may follow the activities and condition of a patient and collect data from the patient, their families and the community through questionnaires, interviews or history taking for community or public health projects. Students may also follow the activities of a doctor and other health care professionals and collect data from them in clinical practice projects, or through experimental and laboratory-based approaches for studies related to health or environmental sciences. Amongst the skills that will be taught and practised include generating questionnaires, sampling, laboratory research methodologies, analysis of data using statistical tools, critical interpretation of data and interviewing skills. Comparison of results against published data or best-practice in medicine, implemention of an audit process and dissemination of data and findings from the project will also be emphasised. Students will be presenting the findings of their projects through a written work and a presentation.
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