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FMHU3000: Evidence Based Health Care
2025 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 |
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| Academic unit | Participation Sciences |
| Credit points | 6 |
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Prerequisites:
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HSBH1007 or HSBH2007 or FMHU2000 |
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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
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