Biomedical Advanced Coursework (MEDI40006)

Intended learning outcomes

On completion of this subject students will be able to:

• Demonstrate a mature understanding of experimental design, implementation, evaluation and communication of research relating to broad fields of clinical and pre-clinical biomedical research and how this directly impacts on the clinical management of human health and disease.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the major disciplines of translational biomedical research within a clinical hospital research environment and how translational research can impact on clinical management of health and disease.
• Select, summarise and critically evaluate published research in broad biomedical research areas with clinical and translational relevance, and use this information to provide rationale for their own research hypotheses.
• Identify and discuss the limitations and weaknesses that are associated with a range of experimental strategies.

Generic skills

• Analysing complex scientific issues
• Identifying critical and essential factors from a large body of information
• Making a constructive critique of a scientific presentation
• Performing written and oral communication skills at a high standard
• Contributing to intellectual discussion
• Generating new ideas for scientific experiments