Critical Appraisal Techniques for Healthcare Literature

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St George's, University of London

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Critical Appraisal Techniques for Healthcare Literature

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Critical Appraisal Techniques for Healthcare Literature

The course Critical Appraisal Techniques for Healthcare Literature is an online class provided by St George's, University of London through Future Learn. It may be possible to receive a verified certification or use the course to prepare for a degree.

Learn how to critically appraise published medical research literature to keep up with research developments in your field.

Course description

Learn to analyse healthcare research papers and determine their value
3 weeks

In today’s clinical professions, staff are expected to keep up with fast-changing, evidence-based research in their own field and beyond.
On this course, you will learn critical appraisal techniques to evaluate the quality of healthcare research literature.
You will evaluate published papers, interrogate their methodologies, identify strengths and weaknesses and produce a balanced appraisal of papers to discuss with colleagues, patients, and academic bodies. You’ll assess the contributions of published papers to their research fields, and identify where there’s a need for further research.

Principles of critical appraisal
Techniques and models for critiquing healthcare research papers
Relevant research designs and analysis methods, both quantitative and qualitative
Papers discussed and appraised will cover a broad range of health areas

This course is designed for healthcare professionals including medics, dentists, nurses, midwives, paramedics, radiologists, occupational therapists, physiotherapists and pharmacists.
It will be relevant to any stage of a career. Established professionals may look to complete the course as evidence of CPD, and the skills will also be highly relevant to junior staff, trainees, and undergraduate/postgraduate students.
This course will also be useful for healthcare educational researchers and any other learners who:
-Need to critically appraise and stay abreast of the healthcare research literature as part of their clinical duties
-Are considering carrying out research & developing their own research projects.
-Are undertaking or plan to join a formal pre-doctoral integrated academic training programme.

St George’s, University of London
St George’s is the UK’s only university dedicated to medical and health sciences education, training and research.

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Critical Appraisal Techniques for Healthcare Literature

Course Topic

Healthcare & Medicine, Study Skills

University, College, Institution

St George’s, University of London

Course Skill Level

see course summary

Course Language

English

Place of class

Online, self-paced (see curriculum for more information)

Degree

Certificate

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Critical Appraisal Techniques for Healthcare Literature

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