2024/25 Undergraduate Module Catalogue

MEDI1224 Enquire 1

Module manager: Dr Nikki Rousseau
Email: N.Rousseau1@leeds.ac.uk

Taught: Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) View Timetable

Year running 2024/25

Pre-requisite qualifications

None; a core module of the MBChB

Co-requisites

MEDI1204	Individuals and Populations
MEDI1214	Innovation, Development, Enterprise, Leadership and Safety 1
MEDI1215	Campus to Clinic 1
MEDI1216	Introduction to Medical Sciences
MEDI1220	Body Systems

Module replaces

The ENQUIRE will replace the current RESS+SSP+ESREP modules across all five years of the MBChB, starting with year 1 students in 2022/2023. The module change form will be submitted next year for this cohort of students as they move to year 2 in 2023/2024

This module is not approved as a discovery module

Module summary

This module provides structured, peer-to-peer and independent learning and practice of research, audit and evaluation skills. Students will be introduced to the skills needed to carry out research, audit and/or evaluation effectively, including how to formulate questions, gather information from a range of sources, make judgements on the quality of this data, and interpret the results and draw conclusions.

Objectives

ENQUIRE Purpose:
At graduation, a newly qualified doctor should be able to critically evaluate research, audit and evaluation findings, recognise the inherent limitations and strengths of evidence, understand how evidence is used in management guidelines, and be able to reason about different types of data (e.g. patient, research, service) to inform healthcare delivery and patient care.
The ENQUIRE strand is a core part of the MBChB programme, aimed at providing medical students with the opportunity to acquire, develop, and apply research, audit and evaluation skills. ENQUIRE maps directly to Outcome 3 (Professional Knowledge) of the GMC’s “Outcomes for Doctors: 2018: Newly qualified doctors must be able to apply scientific method and approaches to medical research and integrate these with a range of sources of information used to make decisions for care (26). ENQUIRE enables our students to have participated in a breadth and depth of curricular experience to develop important skills needed to practice evidence-based medicine.
The GMC outcomes evolved from 2015 (section 12) to 2018 (section 26), and now emphasises the application and integration of the research and wider scientific method to make decisions for care. The EQNUIRE refresh will be structured to help students apply systematic evaluation methods to clinical situations, and of relevance to any direction their careers take them, practice, policy, leadership, education, and research.
The ENQUIRE strand is an integral part of the overall MBChB SAFER-MEDIC (core curriculum). In addition to section 26, ENQUIRE also maps onto these wider GMC Outcomes for Doctors (https://www.gmc-uk.org/-/media/documents/dc11326-outcomes-for-graduates-2018_pdf-75040796.pdf), where newly qualified doctors must:
• demonstrate that they can practise safely. They must participate in and promote activity to improve the quality and safety of patient care and clinical outcomes (5)

• learn and work effectively within a multi-professional and multi-disciplinary team and across multiple care settings (9)

• be able to use information effectively and safely in a medical context…(19)

• be able to apply biomedical scientific principles, methods and knowledge to medical practice and integrate these into patient care (22)

• be able to apply social science principles, methods and knowledge to medical practice and integrate these into patient care (24)

• be able to apply the principles, methods and knowledge of population health and the improvement of health and sustainable healthcare to medical practice (25)
These wider objectives have led to a closer integration of ENQUIRE with each other strand within MBChB.
ENQUIRE also provides opportunities for diversifying and personalising the curriculum (for the student and by the student) and is therefore linked to careers and employability development, as well as intercalated programmes, interdisciplinary programmes and opportunities for excellence. ENQUIRE also enables embedding of ongoing and emerging issues in our society (such as equity and diversity, nutrition and health, sustainability, medicine as part of our community, sleep and health).

The broad aims of ENQUIRE 1 are:
• to explain the role of ‘evidence based medicine’ for doctors
• to explain the importance of well-developed research, audit and evaluation questions and provide frameworks for developing and evaluating the quality of such questions
• to provide an understanding of different types of study designs, and approaches to audit and evaluation, including their strengths and limitations
• to provide opportunities to develop research, audit and/or evaluation skills
• to provide an understanding of different types of data, including how to analysis, interpret, synthesise and present data
On completion of this module, students should be able to ...

Learning outcomes
On successful completion of ENQUIRE 1, students will be able to:
1. describe a range of research designs and methods, relevant to research, audit and evaluation
2. show basic research, audit and evaluation skills, including formulating a question, literature searching, data collection, data analysis and interpretation
3. describe key features of qualitative research, systematic reviews, approaches to audit and evaluation, lab sciences, surveys and observational research, experimental research
4. demonstrate research, audit and/or evaluation skills through presentation of data in different formats (written reports and poster presentation)
5. show basic critical evaluation skills
6. demonstrate use of evidence throughout research by appropriate referencing

Skills outcomes
Consistent with LeedsforLife aims, ENQUIRE:
Provides the knowledge and skills enabling students to undertake projects that are suited to their interests, and needs. The research, audit and evaluation skills are relevant to being able to think critically about the delivery and experience of medicine and healthcare, and also consider the partnership between medicine and society.
Provides opportunities for students to experience different types of expertise from across academia, clinical academic, health settings, and community organisations when carrying out projects to develop their scientific skills, and application to clinical reasoning.

Syllabus

ENQUIRE 1 will consist of:
- E-Learning and lectures on relevant topics
- Skill-based exercises
- Undertaking the structured methods for a research project using a tutor-led workbook-based tutorial to guide learning (Sleep App)
- Undertaking a special studies student-selected project involving the development of research, audit or evaluation skills, and led by a tutor with expertise in the field of application.

ENQUIRE 1 content will be based on desired knowledge outcomes for year one students (mapped against the whole programme outcomes), for example:
- Review the literature to determine need for the research, audit or evaluation
- Formulate a research, audit or evaluation question
- Identify appropriate research, audit or evaluation methods
- Gather data
- Analyse, summarise and present data
- Interpret data and identify Limitations (e.g. representativeness and bias)
- Draw conclusions and apply to clinical practice
Term 1
The lectures will cover: evidence based medicine; formulation of research, audit and evaluation questions; research designs, and approaches to audit and evaluation; critical evaluation; data collection; descriptive quantitative analysis; basic statistical tests; interpreting quantitative data; critical thinking and writing; communicating research, audit and evaluation findings; and referencing.
Students will concurrently work on a research project: Sleep App Project. This project will provide structured peer to peer and independent learning, and practice of research, audit and evaluation skills. Following hypothesis generation and method development, students will collect quantitative data on self and input to a central database. Anonymised class data will be analysed to test hypothesis. Tables and graphs will be used to present self and class data, and measures and spread to describe data. Data will be interpreted and complex information summarised succinctly for presentation (research report).
Year 1: Terms 2 and 3
The lectures will cover: qualitative research; surveys and observational research; experimental research; systematic reviews; lab science methods; audit and evaluation; research ethics; further statistics; poster presentation.
Students will concurrently work on the Special Studies Project (SSP). This project allows students to apply the research, audit and evaluation skills they have developed during term 1 of ENQUIRE 1 to a project of their choice.
Project activities will depend on the specific project allocated to the student, but all projects include application of the following skills:

- Use information gathering skills to understand topic
- Identify strengths and limitations of research of relevance to whole population
- Understand a research method, or approach to audit or evaluation
- Analyse generated or given data using appropriate procedures
- Present findings
- Interpret the findings and draw conclusions
- Use Endnote to manage references

The students will produce a project report and a poster for assessment.

Teaching methods

Delivery type	Number	Length hours	Student hours
Workshop	6	1.00	6.00
Poster session	1	2.00	2.00
Lecture	15	1.00	15.00
Seminar	1	1.50	1.50
Tutorial	19	1.00	19.00
Private study hours			56.50
Total Contact hours			43.50
Total hours (100hr per 10 credits)			100.00

Private study

Term 1: Independent online learning with completion of weekly task, where the output of each task is used in subsequent tutorials.
Term 2: Students will meet approximately 5 times with tutors depending on the project and will then work independently on their projects and posters.

Opportunities for Formative Feedback

Following each tutorial, students will be required to complete tasks and bring the outputs from these tasks to subsequent tutorials. Tutors provide feedback to support learning, and assess engagement with the module, both within tutorials and from students’ submitting work via their reflective log and 1200 report (term 1/2), and 2000 word report and poster presentation (term 2/3).

Methods of assessment

Coursework

Assessment type	Notes	% of formal assessment
Poster Presentation	.	10.00
Reflective log	.	5.00
Report	Sleep App Project. 1,200-word report	40.00
Report	SSP. 2,000-word report	45.00
Portfolio	Library Skills and Tasks	0.00
Total percentage (Assessment Coursework)		100.00

ENQUIRE 1 tasks will be recorded as non-graded passes with the opportunity to resit in the resit period. All assessments for the ENQUIRE Strand modules are Formative Assessments. Their function is to a) provide timely feedback enabling students to identify their needs and direct their own learning, b) identify students who would benefit from additional academic or student support, and c) check student engagement with the module and meet professional standards required by the General Medical Council. All students who engage with these assessments for learning receive a pass for the module. These assessments for learning are compulsory and require students to engage fully with them. The ICU provides criteria to define the sufficient standard students need to meet for each assessment. These criteria differ depending on the purpose of the assessment for learning, for example engaging with teaching throughout the term in small groups and submitting a reflective report, to submitting an essay demonstrating minimum attainment of skills needed to write-up an empirical study. If written reports are deemed unsatisfactory, students will meet with the Enquire year-lead, who will provide feedback and guidance to enable them to improve their written report and/or poster. They will then have to rewrite and resubmit their work to a satisfactory standard during the resit period in order to achieve a non-graded pass standard. Students who do not meet the engagement standards receive a fail. Students who fail to engage are seen by the Enquire year-lead to discuss their reasons for their behaviour as soon as possible after the feedback is given. Where appropriate students are referred to the year-level student support team. All students are given a chance to meet the engagement standards by being offered a related assessment for learning to be completed by the end of the University resit period. Students who do not pass the module will not be able to progress to the next year. A change between RESS and ENQUIRE has been to integrate the RESS end of term 2 essay and reflective log into a single report that encourages students to reflect critically on what they learnt from this self-selected project, and generate ideas about what to try next, and how it supports their career navigation.

Reading list

The reading list is available from the Library website

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