Case Study Research Course

Curriculum

6 Sections
6 Lessons
Lifetime

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Module 1: Introduction to the Case Study Research Report
This module provides a general overview and serves as an introduction to the elements of a case study research report. In addition, it reviews the importance of and the relative merits of case study reporting as well as research hierarchy and a comparison of the various types of research.
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  Module I: Overview, Introduction & Technical Requirements to the Case Study Research Report
Module II - Review of a Case Study & its Components
The systematic construction of each section of a case study report is covered utilizing an actual paper from the peer reviewed literature. The student is instructed in the necessary content for each section in detail. Focused time is spent reviewing the intervention and outcomes sections especially as it is related to reporting and describing technique specific methods and the discussion of models of subluxation as applied to the case. How to handle ancillary procedures, the outcomes section (both subjective and objective) is covered. Details regarding how to describe mechanisms of action in relation to the chiropractic interventions and outcomes are discussed.
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  Module II – Review of a Case Study & its Components
Module III - Literature Searching, strategies, databases & Index Medicus
This module reviews the basics of literature searching and gathering related to research. The various applications and services available such as the Index to Chiropractic Literature, MANTIS, Galileo, SCOPUS, CINAHL, PubMed and others are covered. Basic instruction in how to conduct a literature search is provided. How to gather articles once found, how to construct your reference lists, the Uniform Requirements, and the peer reviewed chiropractic journals are reviewed and discussed.
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  Module III – Literature Searching, Strategies, Databases & Index Medicus
Module IV - Editor's Viewpoints, Getting Published & Peer Review
A thorough review of the submission and peer review process is undertaken in an effort to improve the likelihood that a submitted paper will go on to be published and to give the student an general understanding of the process involved from pre-submission to submission through publication. Topics include: instructions for authors, picking a journal to submit to, the theory and practice of peer review, the peer review process, stages of the peer review process, how to handle rejection, scientific misconduct issues, authorship issues, editorial autonomy, copyright assignment, informed consent and indexing related issues.
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  Module IV – Editor’s Viewpoints, Getting Published & Peer Review
Module V - The importance of research in chiropractic education, clinical practice and to the growth of the profession
The Importance of Research to the Chiropractic Profession. This module will focus on the profession’s ethical and moral responsibility to conduct research. The lecture will also cover: The importance of research related to health policy, worldviews and their relationship to research, the general nature and structure of the research enterprise, cultural issues related to research and the chiropractic profession, research funding issues, epidemiological issues related to vertebral subluxation, the clinical meaningfulness of vertebral subluxation, politics, practice and research in chiropractic, examples of research successes in chiropractic.
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  Module V – The importance of research in chiropractic education, clinical practice and to the growth of the profession
Notes, Files, Forms, Presentations, Links, Recordings & Other Course Material
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  Notes, Files, Lectures & Other Course Material

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Module II – Review of a Case Study & its Components

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