Teaching Structure, Methods & Assessment
Courses
The programme is structured so that in the first semester students take core courses to help them develop skills and understanding which will enable them to progress in the elective courses in the second semester.
Teaching is by a variety of methods, including lectures, practicals, group work, seminars and workshops.
Course assessments are mainly essay-based, but with some examinations and assessed presentations.
Examples of coursework include:
- Developing a grant proposal
- Critical appraisal of published papers
- Critical discussion of current health topics
- Design of a health promotion programme
- Undertaking and analysing qualitative interviews
- Systematic review
- Analysis and reporting of a dataset provided
Dissertation
The dissertation research project might involve:
- a review of existing published research
- quantitative or qualitative analysis of data to answer a specified research question, either -
- using data already available from a secondary source, or
- after collecting the new primary data needed for the intended analysis.
Examples of past dissertations include:
- A qualitative study of feeding practices amongst young mothers in Edinburgh's British Pakistani population in regards to their children.
- Red blood cell transfusion in intensive care: A review of the Intensive Care Study of Coagulopathy (ISOC) dataset
- Sclerotherapy for lower limb telangiectasias: A systematic review for the Peripheral Vascular Diseases Group of the Cochrane Collaboration
- Genetic risk factors for Multiple Sclerosis in the Northern Isles of Scotland
- Barriers to implementing telemetrically supported care: A secondary analysis of qualitative data from three Scottish trials
- Qualitative study of perceived barriers to malaria prevention and control interventions in Lilongwe, Malawi
- Systematic Review on the morbidity and mortality attributable to influenza in children aged 0-5 years
- Attitudes, beliefs and perceptions towards smokeless tobacco - A systematic review
- Self-reported alcohol consumption and cognition in an elderly population with type II Diabetes: A secondary analysis of the Edinburgh Type 2 Diabetes study
- Coronary Artery Disease Atheromatous Plaque Burden is not Associated with Reduced Lung Function in Patients Undergoing Cardiac Surgery
- Older people's perceptions and experiences of maintaining health in later life: implications for health promotion and public health policy
- Adolescent cancer patients: The models of care and the unmet needs
- Peripheral Voices: An investigation into the provision, experiences and outcomes of a voluntary sector counselling service
- The Burden of Human African Trypanosomiasis in Southern Sudan
- A critical review of the literature on unsafe abortion in public health research in India
- Smoking amongst adolescents in Rhodes (Greece): Adolescents talking about perceptions and views around smoking and the smoke free legislation
- Economic Evaluation of replacement of edentulism: A systematic review
