Research & Audit
Gain clinical audit, research and quality improvement skills. This multi-disciplinary programme is relevant to all healthcare professionals who are looking to improve their skills and knowledge of research, audit and quality improvement.
The elearning is arranged into two modules:
Skills Training
The first module, entitled Core Knowledge, helps you to develop skills in areas such as reviewing clinical papers, formulating a research proposal, conducting audits and clinical studies, and the regulatory framework. It provides an excellent foundation if you are considering a research or audit project.
Quality improvement training
The second module, entitled Perioperative Improvement Science and Management (PRISM-ed), explores key resources required to deliver quality improvements within healthcare.
Features
- Relevant to all healthcare professionals involved in research, audit and quality improvement
- Easy online access
- Developed in the UK and relevant to practitioners globally
Content
The online elearning programme consists of two modules that are divided up into smaller elearning sessions.
Module 1 deals with research and audit core principles and covers subjects such as the basic principles of epidemiology and audits, meta-analysis and evidence-based medicine, searching the journal literature and locating papers, how to review a paper and formulating and writing a research proposal.
Further sessions cover the regulatory environment for conducting research (within the NHS), research governance and ethics, the basic principles of designing a randomised controlled trial, clinical studies (cohort studies and measures of association) and part two (study design), systematic reviews and finally the basic principles of qualitative research.
Module 2 deals with perioperative improvement science and management (PRISM-ed) and after an introductory session, covers subjects such as systems, process, learning from industry and other improvement models, measurement for QI, human factors, reliability and sustainability and finally the psychology of improvement.
Certificate
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