Assessment Instructions

This essay asks you to:

Critically analyse the role of research as a key aspect of learning and teaching in your clinical practice. Use one example of your own learning or teaching on clinical practice to support your discussion.

The aim of this assessment task is to critically discuss the links between research and teaching in clinical practice. By critically discuss I mean discuss the importance of, the strengths and weaknesses of basing learning on research (there are both). Take one of your own experiences from clinical (either when you were on clinical experience OR when working as AIN etc. and use this where appropriate to illustrate your points. This an academic piece of work so you will also have to reference the points you make. Your work should have headings, paragraphs and follow the TEEL framework. See below for suggested word counts and layout for paragraphs. Weeks 1-3 will help you with this assessment.

• So you should begin with an introduction that briefly defines the concepts research, teaching and clinical practice (these will need to be referenced). A brief statement outlining the importance of/ links between these might follow. Then your next few sentences should outline to the reader what is to come in the following essay (approx. 250 words). 
• The body of the essay might follow the main concepts of the topic to be critically discussed
• Conclusion - review/ summary of all the major points you have made previously in your essay. This is NOT the place to add anything new (so no references needed here). Nor is it the place to add profound philosophical statements that sound academically wonderful.