PT 550 - Research 1-Critical Inquiry

(3 credits)

This course provides and introduction to the procedures and clinical application of scholarly inquiry and highlights relationships between evidence and clinical practice. Lecture, class discussion, and classroom assignments will be used to explore topics including an introduction to research methods and design, and conceptually based statistical interpretation. Ethical, legal, and financial issues relevant to research, formulation of research question, accessing research literature databases, and professional literature critique will be introduced. Spring.