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FMHU3000: Evidence Based Health Care

2024 unit information

Evidence-based health care is the practice of integrating the best available research evidence with clinical expertise and the patients values, preferences, and circumstances as health decisions are made. Through this unit, you will develop fundamental skills in locating, understanding, and critically appraising research evidence; eliciting patient values and preferences; and implementing evidence-based health care. These skills are highly relevant for current and future health practitioners as well as for those who design, develop, and implement health programs and policy.

Unit details and rules

Managing faculty or University school:

Medicine and Health

Study level Undergraduate
Academic unit Participation Sciences
Credit points 6
Prerequisites:
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HSBH1007 or HSBH2007 or FMHU2000
Corequisites:
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None
Prohibitions:
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HSBH3005
Assumed knowledge:
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None

At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:

  • LO1. Demonstrate an understanding that health decisions should be based on an integration of research evidence, clinical expertise, and the patient’s values, preferences, and circumstances
  • LO2. Generate focused, answerable questions about health interventions, diagnostic tests, prognosis, and patient perspectives
  • LO3. Locate research evidence to answer health-related questions
  • LO4. Critically appraise the validity, importance, and relevance of research evidence in the context of a health-related question
  • LO5. Synthesise and apply research evidence in order to answer a health-related question
  • LO6. Design strategies for implementing health-related research evidence and addressing evidence-practice gaps
  • LO7. Communicate effectively about health-related research evidence with diverse populations

Unit availability

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Session MoA ?  Location Outline ? 
Semester 2 2024
Normal day Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney
Session MoA ?  Location Outline ? 
Semester 2 2022
Normal day Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney
Semester 2 2023
Normal day Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney

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