Scholarship in Teaching

MDED5002

This unit is designed to provide health care professionals with a deeper understanding of the nature of evidence in health professional education, and the skills in analysing and synthesising this evidence to inform improvement in their own teaching and learning practices. Modules within this unit of study will focus on the scholarship of teaching in health and understanding and appraising qualitative and quantitative research.By the end of this unit students will be able to: describe scholarship of teaching in health professional education; critique teaching and learning interventions and methods including qualitative and quantitative studies; synthesise evidence from the health professional education literature in the form of a literature review; develop information literacy skills to search the health professional education literature and use Endnote; and reflect on applying evidence to their own teaching and learning context.

Unit of study details

Unit of study level: Postgraduate

Credit points: 6

Commencing semesters: 1

Further unit of study information

Unit of study handbook: MDED5002

Costs and scholarships information: Costs and Scholarships

Final dates to withdraw from units of study: Census Dates

Available for study abroad and exchange: No

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