This module will prepare participants to use ideas from literature to inform their DProf Health thesis. Reading for a Doctorate is a means of enabling students to see issues from different perspectives. The module will enable students to demonstrate connections between theory, enquiry and healthcare practice.
All health and social care professionals need a critical understanding of how research relates to professional knowledge and practice. Research is generated and used by professionals working in health related environments to maintain clinical currency and to deliver care and treatment safely. This module offers the student enhanced skills for generating, interpreting, and using the findings of professional research to apply to their practice. Students will develop a critical approach to identifying reliable sources of professional knowledge and will be expected to reflect critically on how the evidence impacts on their own area of practice.
This module introduces students to the discourse surrounding the generation and use of health professional evidence, and considers the wider context in which health and social care research is undertaken. It will support students to develop their abilities to critically appraise and synthesise the outcome of relevant research, evaluation, and audit, using the results to underpin their own practice and to inform that of others.
The module serves as an important foundation module for postgraduate students wishing to develop or change practice in the workplace, and for those progressing to the DProf Health thesis stage.