This capstone unit for the Master of Medicine (Critical Care) degree aims to develop students' reflective ethical and critical thinking skills, required to inform best clinical practice. The unit is divided into two parts: an introduction to key ethical concepts and methods of ethical analysis; and an overview of evidence relevant to health care practice and research. Students initially apply ethical principles to examine a series of case studies. Students will then critically appraise the evidence base related to an area of practice in their workplace or a clinical guideline. This will require the development of a clinical question, a literature review, then an appraisal of the literature and application of evidence to individual patient care. Learning modules will include applying decision analysis to facilitate shared decision-making in practice, how to conduct a literature review, an example of how clinical practice and guidelines have changed based on changing evidence and review, and further refinement of clinical epidemiology and critical appraisal skills developed in CEPI5100 Introduction to Clinical Epidemiology.
Details
Academic unit | Critical Care |
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Unit code | CRIT5008 |
Unit name | Evidence and Ethics in Critical Care |
Session, year
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Semester 2 Early, 2020 |
Attendance mode | Online |
Location | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney |
Credit points | 6 |
Enrolment rules
Prohibitions
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None |
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Prerequisites
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None |
Corequisites
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CEPI5100 and 18 credit points of stream specific units of study from any of (CRIT5001, CRIT5002, CRIT5003, CRIT5004, CRIT5005, CRIT5006, CRIT5007, CRIT5009, CRIT5010, CRIT5011, CRIT5012, CRIT5014, CRIT5015, CRIT5016, CRIT5017, PAIN5021, CLNP5005, INTM5014, PAED5007) |
Assumed knowledge
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This unit of study is only available to medical graduates. Clinical experience in a critical care discipline such as: emergency medicine, intensive care, anaesthesia, surgery or retrieval medicine. |
Available to study abroad and exchange students | No |
Teaching staff and contact details
Coordinator | Doug Elliott, doug.elliott@sydney.edu.au |
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Tutor(s) | Doug Elliott , doug.elliott@sydney.edu.au |
Administrative staff | Silvia Pinneri (Education Design and Delivery Officer): silvia.pinneri@sydney.edu.au |