Course Catalogue

Digital Health Interventions - Dissertation MED5604

  • Academic Session: 2026-27
  • School: School of Health and Wellbeing
  • Credits: 60
  • Level: Level 5 (SCQF level 11)
  • Typically Offered: Summer
  • Available to Visiting Students: Yes
  • Collaborative Online International Learning: No
  • Curriculum For Life: No

Short Description

Students will complete a substantive piece of independent work involving an analysis of primary or secondary data and or existing literature.

Timetable

Students will spend the summer semester working with their supervisor on their dissertation.

Requirements of Entry

None

Excluded Courses

Digital Health Interventions - internship

Co-requisites

None

Assessment

Dissertation (up to 10,000 words approx.) - 60%

 

Supervisor report - 20%

 

Poster presentation - 20%

Are reassessment opportunities available for all summative assessments? No

It is the default expectation that all courses will offer opportunities for reassessment or deferred assessment. Where it is not possible to offer this in some assessment components, the grade achieved at the first attempt will be counted towards the final course grade, and any exceptions for this course are described below.

[No exceptions]

Course Aims

The course aims to provide students with the opportunity to apply knowledge and skills gained in core and optional courses to review and critique the scientific and other literature, collate and analyse primary or secondary data and or existing data in the published literature, interpret the findings of these analyses and effectively communicate these findings.

Intended Learning Outcomes of Course

By the end of this course students will be able to:

 

1. Critically evaluate scientific and other bodies of literature.

2. Critically evaluate data and published evidence to answer a research question, producing potential recommendations for future intervention development and or policy with a view to make balanced conclusions.

3. Critically discuss and reflect on issues of ethics, safety, privacy and information governance.

4. Clearly and concisely summarise these procedures in the form of a written dissertation.

5. Present a critical discussion of their research findings and the relevance of their work for the broader research area.

Minimum Requirement for Award of Credits

No exceptions