Clinical Audit and Research for Healthcare Professionals

Why study Clinical Audit and Research for Healthcare Professionals at Dundee?

In recent years there has been a rapid growth in clinical audit and research to evaluate treatment interventions and improvement in patient care and any associated cost benefits. This has led to an increasing number of healthcare professionals being exposed, often for the first time, to clinical audit and research methods. This rapid growth has been recognised here at the Department of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery, which has an active and expanding Clinical Audit and Research Unit.

The Clinical Audit & Research Unit is a joint venture between Industry, Dundee Teaching Hospitals Trust and the University of Dundee. It is involved in a number of clinical audit projects relating to orthopaedics and provides clinical and statistical expertise in audit of process, project planning, data processing and trial control mechanisms.

The combination of expertise in postgraduate education delivered by open learning methods, coupled with an active research environment, has enabled us to develop a programme specifically tailored to deliver the skills needed by the healthcare profession to successfully undertake research and audit.

This is a modular course, taught by distance learning, covering the following subjects:

• Research and the Scientific Method
• Information Gathering and Review
• Statistical Methods
• Reporting and Presentation
• Implementing Clinical Audit
• Funding Issues
• Ethical Issues

This course is designed for healthcare professionals seeking to improve their career opportunities.

• Other Orthopaedic PG courses