Courses/Advice > Short Courses Timetable > Sheffield
The following timetable lists the course events that are run by the Sheffield RDSU unit. The courses themselves may run either at the Sheffield base or at venues within the local area. The course titles are linked to work documents giving full descriptions of the course contents, aims and background information about the tutors. Information Resources
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Dates |
Learning Objectives |
Literature Searching for Qualitative Research
1 half day |
14/10/08 |
- Search for qualitative research in the major health and social care databases such as Medline and CareDATA
- Look at the key study designs and terminology in the qualitative literature
- Demonstrates how to search qualitative literature in the major databases by using techniques such as methodological filters
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Literature Searching for Research - Introductory
1 half day |
21/10/07
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- Develop a search question
- Construct a search strategy
- Choose an appropriate database/s
- Search using a variety of techniques
- Limit their search to increase relevance of result
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Critically Appraising Research
1 half day
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11/11/08 |
- Understand the need to appraise research studies
- Appraise a research study using an established checklist
- Explore the full range of researouces to support critical appraisal
- Identify sources of critically-appraised research
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Searching for Research in Cyberspace
1 half day
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18/11/08
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- Understand the ways in which the internet can be used for health and social care research
- Develop a strategy for searching the web
- Identify key web-based resources for health and social care information
- Find web-based information both by browsing and searching
- Appraise web-based information sources according to key quality criteria
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Further Literature Searching for Your Research Project
1 half day |
02/12/08
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- Develop a search strategy which makes best use of subject headings and free-text terms
- Apply subheadings in a variety of ways to refine their search
- Identify key study designs that meet their requirements
- Use simple filters to extract these study designs from the literature
- Save their search strategy for future use
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