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This topic aims to provide students with the opportunity to independently implement a clinical education research project (as developed in HLED9113A) and engage in scholarly reporting, within a supported and supervised environment. This topic will enable students to consolidate their research skills and capacity, undertake data collection and analysis activities for research purposes, critique and extend current understandings of the topic under consideration, discern practical and theoretical implications of research, engage in scholarly reporting, and develop as an autonomous researcher.

Demonstrated knowledge and skills in conceptualising, designing and planning a clinical education research project. Students will be expected to have the capacity to: plan and design a clinical education research study in an area relevant to clinical education; formulate an operational research question; search, critically appraise and synthesise the empirical and theoretical literature; identify and critique the conceptual/theoretical framework, study design and methods for the research topic under consideration; develop a logical plan for the implementation and management of a research project; identify and address ethical issues relevant to the topic under consideration; and engage in scholarly reporting of research consistent with academic standards.