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HLTH 301, Semester One, 2016

Description of the Course

This course offers you a blend of big picture health topics (system level) along with the

technical skills required to identify, evaluate, summarise and apply evidence in health care.

HLTH 301 (Evidence in Health) is a 0.25 EFTS course (aka 30 points course). You will

need to spend about 10 hours of study per week (a full study per week is 40 hours). We will

meet you face to face in class for two hours of lecture (Mondays 4-6 PM, see below for

schedule) and one hour for additional class (Fridays 3-4 PM, see below for schedule).

Goals of this course

Learn about the role and use of evidence in health care, and

Build capacity/skills among students in critical appraisal.

Course Coordinator:

Dr Arindam Basu (!"#$%!&'(!)*+,!$-."(*"/'!,'$0)

Direct all your questions and comments regarding the course to Arindam Basu

Other Lecturers in the course

Professor Ray Kirk ("!/'1#"1+,!$-."(*"/'!,'$0)

Professor Ann Richardson (!$$'"#,2!"%)3$+,!$-."(*"/'!,'$0)

Annabel Ahuriri Driscoll (!$$!(.4'!2*"#"#5%"#),344+,!$-."(*"/'!,'$0)

Margaret Paterson (&!"6!".-'7!-.")3$+,!$-."(*"/'!,'$0)

Time and Venue

Lectures: Every Monday 4:00-6:00 PM at Wheki 204 between 22nd February - 10th April

(First term), and 2nd May - 5th June (Second Term)

Additional Lectures (as announced): Friday, 3-4 PM at Wheki 103, 22nd February - 10th

April (First term), and 2nd May - 5th June (Second Term)
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Course Objectives

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Table 1. List of Class Dates and topics. We have 11 Weeks. Each Class will run between 4-6PM in Wheki 204 on Mondays and/or where indicated, 3-4 PM on Fridays at Wheki 103 (if classtimes change or classes will not be offered, this will be announced beforehand in Learn Page

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Assessments for this course

There will be three assessments for this course -- (1) a one-hour mid-term examination, (2)discussions to be posted on Learn, and (3) a written assignment in the form of a critical ap-praisal essay on a particular topic. All Assignments are Online and you must submit onlinethrough Learn, the online course management system and using the prescribed templates.We shall not accept assignments in any other format (e.g, printed, or hand written formats).Please do not redesign the templates for assignments.

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Assessment 1: Multiple Choice Question based Examination (35 questions, 35%

weight, due on 8th April, 2016, Friday, 3-4:10 PM)

There will be an online multiple choice question based examination. The examination will be

administered online in Learn with 35 multiple choice questions. The duration of the exami-

nation will be one hour. We will allow ten minutes to read and review the questions, thus the

total duration of the examination will be one hour ten minutes, from 3 PM ?:10 PM on Fri-

day, 8th April, 2016 . We recommend you should use a desktop or a laptop/notebook com-puter connected to the Internet to take this examination. We shall book a computer laborato-

ry session for the time period of the examination. However, if you would prefer to use your

own computing device(s) and take the examination at a place of your choice where secured,

connection to the Internet is available, this is OK. This examination is worth 35% of your

total grade and will consist of 35 questions.

The questions will follow a multiple choice question format. Each question will have a stem,

or a statement to start with and five possible answers. Note that only one out of five answers

is correct. You will have to identify the correct answer to gain full mark (1) for the question. A

wrong answer or wrong choice will be given zero (0) mark. We shall not award any partial

credit to any answer.

An example of a question and a correct answer is presented below. As this is an open book

test, you are free to refer to books, online web pages, google, and use study materials to

answer the questions. From the point of starting the examination, you will have 60 minutes.

After 60 minutes, the examination will cut off itself and will automatically submit the answers

that the student has made. Nevertheless, we encourage the student to repeatedly save the

questions and answers. If you face any unforeseen circumstance after beginning the

examination, you must immediately inform the me, course coordinator, Dr Arindam

Basu or Professor Ann Richardson either by sending an email if possible, or texting

at 022 629 0356, or leaving a voice message at 44161 from a campus phone, or callingat the landline 03 345 8161, explaining the situation. We shall take all reasonable care


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and precaution to see that you are not disadvantaged by any way. Here is an example of a

question that you may see in the examination.

Sample Question:

Which organ is referred to by the term cardiac?

A. Lung

B. Liver

C. Kidney

D. Heart

E. Brain

The correct answer for this question is D (Heart). If you select D will you will get 1, and if

you select any other option, you will get 0, as option D is the only correct answer. We

have uploaded a practice examination on Learn. Please practice these questions before tak-

ing the actual examination.

Assessment 2: Discussions to be posted on Learn (20% weight, 20 marks for discus-

sions posted in the relevant discussion section on Learn between 29th February and

3rd June, 2016 )

In this assignment, you will have to postten unique discussions throughout the period

starting 29th February and 3rd June, 2016, on the following general topic,

Discuss, taking into account information you learned from HLTH301 lectures andyour own self-reflective reading and learning, how evidence can be used to improvethe quality and safety of health care

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Assessment 3: Review of a health-related Topic (45% weight, 45 marks, due 3rd

June, 5 PM )

This component of the evaluation will test yourability to apply learned materials on the topics

covered in the course: to critically appraise a health topic. This component of the course

will account for 45% of the overall grade.The late penalty will be as follows. A 5% deduc-

tion in the mark will be done for every day late, so if one day late the mark is actual

mark*0.95, 2 days late actual mark*0.90 and so on.

In thisassignment, you will frame an answerable research question, and conduct a literature

search. Based on the literature search, you will identify a total of five primary research arti-cles. These five primary research articles will then need to be critically appraised and used

to answer the main question. You will critically appraise each of the five articles and identify

up to seven outcomes. Detailed information related to the seven outcomes should be en-

tered into the Revman software and a report will be produced. The report must be written in

the prescribed format (to be given on the Learn site), and submit through Learn by 3rd June,

2016, 5 PM.

In the report, the student will include the following sections:

An introduction.This section will introduce the main problem and the research question

Research Question.You must frame this question using the PICO (population, interven-

tion or exposure, comparison, and outcomes) framework. We shall cover PICO framework of

asking questions in details in the course.

Literature search.You must provide details of the search terms, search algorithms, the

databases searched, and the results of searching each database. You must also provide the

rationale why out of the many articles retrieved, you selected only five articles.

Critical Appraisal of the Literature. This must be completed in Revman. We shall pro-

vide training in Revman software in the course. Appropriate table on the summary of findings

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Description of the key findings. You must write a detailed description of the studies, the

key findings, and the implications of the results of the studies. You must conclude with a well

formulated response to the question under study.

In addition to the above sections, you must use the template we shall provide for this as-

signment. The word limit for this assignment is 3500 words (range: 3000 - 3800 words). Theword count excludes words in tables, figures, and references.

We have provided here the list of topics on which a student should write the critical apprais-

al. The student will need to select only one out of the following topics. If the student wants

to work on another topic or a topic on his or her own choice, he/she should discuss

with the course lecturers (Arindam Basu, Ray Kirk, Ann Richardson, Annabel Ahuriri-

Driscoll) and inform Dr Arindam Basu in writing no later than 7th March, 2016.

List of Questions for the third Assignment

1. Does Breast Feeding Lead to Better Cognitive Development in Children?

2. How effective is Cochlear Implant for children with congenital hearing loss?

3. What is the effectiveness of nicotine replacement therapy for achieving smok-

ing cessation?

4. Do School Based interventions (for instance that focus on more physical activ-

ity) benefit children with obesity?

5. Are Antidepressants Effective for Teenagers who are diagnosed with Depres-

sion?

6. Are breathing exercises beneficial for Asthma?


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