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PAED5005: Evidence and Ethics in Paediatric Medicine
2025 unit information
This capstone unit for the Master of Medicine (Child and Adolescent Health) degree aims to develop students' ethical, reflective, critical thinking and evidence-based decision-making skills, required to inform best clinical practice. The unit is structured in 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. This will involve development of a clinical question, a literature search and review of selected studies, and application of critical appraisal skills. Learning modules include further development of literature search and critical appraisal skills, applying decision analysis to facilitate shared decision-making in practice, and application of evidence to inform individual patient care. The unit brings together topics covered in other stream specific units in the MMED (Child and Adolescent Health) course with critical appraisal and basic epidemiology.
Unit details and rules
Managing faculty or University school:
Medicine and Health
| Study level | Postgraduate |
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| Academic unit | Paediatrics |
| Credit points | 6 |
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Prerequisites:
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None |
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Corequisites:
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CEPI5100 and 18 credit points of stream specific units of study from any of (PAED5000 or PAED5001 or PAED5002 or PAED5003 or PAED5004 or PAED5006 or PAED5007 or PAED5008 or PMED5100 or PMED5101 or PMED5102 or PMED5103) |
| Prohibitions:
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BETH5208 or CRIT5008 |
| Assumed knowledge:
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None |
At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. Explain and compare the features of predominant ethical theories relevant to evidence-based health care practice and research
- LO2. Describe and critically evaluate ethical principles and concepts such as autonomy, capacity, vulnerability, best interests and consent and their role in health care practice and research
- LO3. Apply these ethical concepts to relevant contemporary issues or challenges in health care practice and research
- LO4. Formulate a clinical question so that it fits into one of the four main areas (diagnosis, prognosis, intervention, harm) and can be answered by finding and using the best evidence
- LO5. Select sources of EBM material appropriate for a given question
- LO6. Retrieve appropriate evidence through optimal querying of selected sources
- LO7. Appraise retrieved evidence for validity, importance and applicability including how the limitations of retrieved evidence modify its applicability to patient care
- LO8. Apply the factors involved in clinical decision making as they relate to an individual patient.
Unit availability
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| Session | MoA ? | Location | Outline ? |
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Semester 2 2025
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Online | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney |
Outline unavailable
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