Research in Health Sciences

Catalog description

Students in this graduate course will review the role and importance of the scientific method in health professions, especially those with clinical application. The rationale and role of evidence-based practice and research will be reviewed, and research language and core concepts will be discussed. Students will demonstrate their ability to ask research questions and translate questions into search strategies for finding evidence. The purpose of this course is to provide students the opportunity to demonstrate their capacity to locate, understand, and evaluate the research literature in the student's area of interest. The expectation is to demonstrate understanding of research methodology the ability to critically evaluate research literature. Students will demonstrate knowledge of quantitative and qualitative research methods, types of data, how data are described and how biostatistics are used to provide meaning to research data. A range of health research methods will be covered, and studies about treatment effectiveness (clinical trials and systematic reviews), as well as qualitative approaches will be discussed.