Foundations of Clinical Research

Catalog description

This course provides students with an opportunity to develop skills that are fundamental to making informed clinical decisions based upon the best available evidence. Students will learn the steps involved in making evidence-based decisions, use multiple resources to acquire published evidence, and develop the ability to understand basic statistics reported in the literature. Students will learn to make specific measurements germane to the practice of physical therapy and will understand concepts of reliability and validity as they apply to these measures. In addition, students will develop a searchable foreground question, acquire evidence to answer it, appraise the evidence, and articulate the answer to the question contrasting the relative strengths and limitations of the available evidence.