MD8007 - Independent Study: Dissertation
| Credit points: | 09 |
| Year: | 2011 |
| Student Contribution Band: | Band 3 |
| Administered by: | School of Medicine & Dentistry |
Available to any experienced medical practitioner currently working in a rural or remote location.
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 Outcomes
- ability to conduct a systematic review of the relevant clinical literature relevant to the selected topic;
- 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.
| Prerequisites: | MD8001 and MD8002 |
Availabilities | |
| Townsville, Limited, Study Period 1 | |
| Census Date 24-Mar-2011 | |
| Face to face teaching (Consult School for on-campus attendance requirements) | |
| Coord/Lect: | Professor Tarun Sen Gupta. |
| Assessment: | thesis. |
| Townsville, Limited, Study Period 2 | |
| Census Date 25-Aug-2011 | |
| Face to face teaching (Consult School for on-campus attendance requirements) | |
| Coord/Lect: | Professor Tarun Sen Gupta. |
| Assessment: | thesis. |
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