1 00:00:05,900 --> 00:00:09,290 Hello. My name is Sharon McCann. As the course director, 2 00:00:09,290 --> 00:00:16,670 I would like to provide you with a personal introduction to this M.S. in evidence based health care that we run out of Oxford University, 3 00:00:17,870 --> 00:00:20,060 this MSA attracts busy health care, 4 00:00:20,210 --> 00:00:26,660 research and management professionals from across the world who are interested in developing and challenging their practice. 5 00:00:27,590 --> 00:00:33,740 The focus of this MSE is to encourage you to identify the best quality research, 6 00:00:34,280 --> 00:00:39,740 read it critically, and be confident about how and why you apply it in your practice. 7 00:00:40,100 --> 00:00:48,590 So as a whole, the MSA is a modular and part time course where we require you to complete six modules and a dissertation. 8 00:00:48,950 --> 00:00:51,860 Most students do this over 2 to 4 years. 9 00:00:52,160 --> 00:01:00,170 You do not need to be an Oxford to do this, although you may choose to come here and stay for longer than the modules require you to. 10 00:01:00,320 --> 00:01:06,740 So when I talk about six modules, I'm talking about six courses of study, 11 00:01:07,430 --> 00:01:13,730 only two of which are compulsory, though the compulsory modules are more introductory in nature. 12 00:01:14,210 --> 00:01:17,420 So one is titled The Practice of Evidence Based Health Care, 13 00:01:17,420 --> 00:01:24,110 which is very general and gives you an overview of a lot of the different topics and areas of evidence based health care. 14 00:01:24,740 --> 00:01:31,940 And the second compulsory module takes you a little bit deeper into the study designs and research methods that 15 00:01:31,940 --> 00:01:38,600 you'll need to understand to get to grips with the health care research that is most common at the moment. 16 00:01:39,050 --> 00:01:46,490 Then you will have a choice from at least ten different modules to do four modules that are particularly of interest to you. 17 00:01:47,570 --> 00:01:49,370 Now, when I talk about a module, 18 00:01:49,940 --> 00:01:58,760 what I'm talking about is a period of study which is focussed around one week of face to face classroom activities in Oxford. 19 00:01:59,450 --> 00:02:07,340 Normally you'll be here from Monday to Friday and we run classes of between 16 or 25 students. 20 00:02:07,640 --> 00:02:14,090 We intersperse the teaching with a range of formal lectures from academics and researchers 21 00:02:14,090 --> 00:02:20,000 who are active in the area at the moment with small group and general discussions. 22 00:02:20,480 --> 00:02:26,120 Occasionally you'll be put in groups and asked to do specific projects or specific pieces of work. 23 00:02:26,540 --> 00:02:32,420 Some modules will encourage you to prepare for a presentation which you give to your colleagues at the end of the week. 24 00:02:32,780 --> 00:02:36,590 And the learning that you do in these modules is very active. 25 00:02:36,740 --> 00:02:41,450 You're learning from experts in the area. You're also learning from your colleagues, 26 00:02:41,720 --> 00:02:48,650 some of whom will have a lot of experience in these areas and others who are going to be learning from the beginning. 27 00:02:49,040 --> 00:02:56,449 Now, this learning continues through the week in Oxford, and we use a virtual learning environment, a platform called Web. 28 00:02:56,450 --> 00:03:03,140 Learn to offer you the opportunity to continue online discussions beyond the Oxford Week. 29 00:03:03,200 --> 00:03:12,049 We'll pose some questions that will help you dig deeper into the assignment topic, and you'll be encouraged to post questions, 30 00:03:12,050 --> 00:03:17,270 critique each other's questions, and just continue that collegial learning environment. 31 00:03:18,290 --> 00:03:25,310 Normally, about six or seven weeks after the Oxford Week, we'll ask you to submit an an assignment online. 32 00:03:26,480 --> 00:03:36,620 Now, that assignment is often going to be a topic and an area that is of interest to you so that you can design this MSE to 33 00:03:36,620 --> 00:03:44,840 actually develop your knowledge and your practice in certain specific areas that are really unique to your current workload. 34 00:03:45,320 --> 00:03:52,760 So if we fast track a few years where you've done six modules, you'll be ready to then enrol in the dissertation. 35 00:03:53,270 --> 00:03:57,919 The dissertation is usually something that we think about taking place over a year. 36 00:03:57,920 --> 00:04:07,250 Part time. We're assigned you a supervisor who has some content or methodological expertise in the topic that you want to investigate. 37 00:04:07,520 --> 00:04:10,999 You might want to complete a systematic review on an area. 38 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:15,500 You might want to write an in-depth protocol of a of a trial that you need to do. 39 00:04:15,920 --> 00:04:25,070 Or you might want to do a piece of methodological or qualitative research that you'll be supervised often at a distance over that year, 40 00:04:25,550 --> 00:04:31,730 and you'll be encouraged to submit your dissertation by September of that academic year. 41 00:04:32,060 --> 00:04:38,510 So I hope that's given you a bit of an overview of the messy and a bit of a flavour of how the learning takes place. 42 00:04:39,050 --> 00:04:46,670 Please continue to search this website for the details that you need and do feel free to contact us directly for any more information. 43 00:04:46,670 --> 00:04:47,660 Thanks for your time.