James Cook University Subject Handbook - 2000

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MD8007:09

Independent Study: Dissertation

Townsville

Prerequisites: MD8001 MD8002

60 hours. Flexible delivery. Full year.

Available to any experienced medical practitioner currently working in a rural or remote location.

Staff: Dean of School of Medicine.

This subject allows rural medical practitioners to select a clinical topic of relevance to their current practice in a rural or remote context, to critically review the relevant scientific literature and to prepare a dissertation on that topic.

Learning Objectives:

  1. ability to conduct a systematic review of the relevant clinical literature relevant to the selected topic;
  2. ability to write a dissertation in the form of a scientific paper intended for submission for publication. The paper will include a review of the literature, methodology, results and statistical analyses and will be fully referenced.

Assessment by examination of the dissertation by two examiners (100%).


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