James Cook University Subject Handbook - 2024

MD4113 - Medical Science Honours Part 3 of 3

Available only to MBBS students.

Subject Description

Students will participate in structured teaching and conduct a supervised pre-clinical or clinical research project. Individual research topics will be approved by the College of Medicine and Dentistry Honours Committee.

Learning Outcomes

• analyse and interpret research findings
• conduct under supervision a research project
• demonstrate a capacity to analyse the relevant clinical and scientific literature
• design a research project able to address this question within resource constraints
• formulate a research question relevant to the chosen discipline and present relevant findings in a way that links to clinical practice

Subject Assessment

As this subject is part of a subject chain, a final standard grade (e.g. P, C) will only be recorded for each subject after successful completion of all parts of the subject chain.

• Oral > Presentation 1 - (20%) - Individual
• Written > Thesis/dissertation - (70%) - Individual
• Written > Literature review - (10%) - Individual

Note that minor variations might occur due to the continuous subject quality improvement process, and in case of minor variation(s) in assessment details, the Subject Outline represents the latest official information.

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