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School: Medical and Health Sciences

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  • Unit Title

    Osteopathy Honours: Thesis 1

  • Unit Code

    OST5101

  • Year

    2027

  • Enrolment Period

    1

  • Version

    1

  • Credit Points

    15

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Brett VAUGHAN

Description

In this unit students identify an appropriate research project on an aspect of osteopathy practice. Students will develop and present a research proposal based on a critical engagement with the relevant literature as well as the skills required to undertake the project. Students will develop an understanding of the ethical principles, research processes, and data management strategies required for conducting research.

Non Standard Timetable Requirements

In addition to scheduled seminars, regular supervision and consultation with supervisor(s) and seminars that may be conducted outside of the normal teaching semesters.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must have passed OST3201 Osteopathy Practice 5 and have a WAM equal or greater than 70%.

Only students studying in the Bachelor of Osteopathy Honours (C00) can enrol in this unit

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Formulate research questions based on current knowledge in osteopathy and healthcare.
  2. Critically review relevant literature to form a strong rationale for conducting a research project.
  3. Design and present an osteopathy and/or healthcare research project using methodological and analysis techniques appropriate for the research topic.

Unit Content

  1. Critically review the relevant research evidence.
  2. Conceive a research topic.
  3. Requirements for preparing a research proposal including academic writing.
  4. Requirements for presenting a research proposal.
  5. Project planning and management.
  6. Sampling, recruitment, data collection and analysis.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Students develop skills in identifying research questions and working collaboratively with their supervision panel and with other students in the Honours cohort to develop a research project. There are seminars to support the research activity and skill development together with individual meetings with the supervision panel. Students practice and further develop oral communication, presentation, and organisational skills. Students become acquainted with responsible and accountable research practice and must submit a full project risk assessment approval and engage with the ethics review process.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
Research PaperProposal50%
PresentationProposal presentation30%
PortfolioSubmission of ethics application and risk assessment 20%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Assessment

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. Informal vivas may be conducted as part of an assessment task, where staff require further information to confirm the learning outcomes have been met. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work as well as any generative artificial intelligence tools that may have been used. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

  • Plagiarism: Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people or generative artificial intelligence tools, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).
  • Unauthorised collaboration (collusion): Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).
  • Contract cheating: Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.
  • Cheating in an exam: Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment Procedure - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment Procedure - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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