Becoming a Physiotherapist

Level

Year One

20 Credits

This module focuses on developing the basic skills needed to be an effective clinical researcher. This will include introductions to the philosophy of science and the research process, literature searching, reading research articles, and data collection, manipulation, analysis, and preparation. This will take a research-led teaching approach, introducing students to research in the school in the broad area of sport, exercise, physical activity, health and disease. The module will have personal tutorials embedded into the project work. In practical sessions, the students will collect anthropometric, physiological, and psychological data into a large data set which will then be used in the data science sessions.

Assessment

Class Test (10%)

Coursework - Group Poster Project (30%), Research Hours (10%)

Exam - MCQ (50%)