Clinical Audit and Research for Healthcare Professionals

Overview

In recent years there has been a rapid growth in clinical audit and research to evaluate treatment interventions and improvement in patient care and any associated cost benefits. 

The Clinical Audit and Research for Healthcare Professionals programme from University of Dundee consists of nine learning units. These units may be studied individually so that you can choose to study the units you wish. Each unit requires approximately 100 notational hours of study.

The programme is supplied in a presentation folder containing a student handbook and the nine units. The student handbook provides information about the structure, recommended reference materials and the tutor support system. 

For every unit there is a study guide that explains the objectives of that unit (what you will have learned by the end of the unit) and leads you through the learning material, section by section, using text, illustrations, activities, exercises and references to the recommended textbooks.

This is a modular course, taught by distance learning, covering the following subjects:

• Research and the Scientific Method

• Information Gathering and Review

• Statistical Methods

• Reporting and Presentation

• Implementing Clinical Audit

• Funding Issues

• Ethical Issues

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