OCC 525 Evidence-based Practice I

This course will provide the students an opportunity to apply basic research skills gained in the OCC 514 course and further develop professional writing skills.  Students will be introduced to evidence-based practice, as well as how to identify and interpret levels of evidence-based knowledge.  In finding the evidence, students will learn to develop a focused clinical question and investigate the research literature comparing different forms of evidence inclusive of systematic reviews and clinical practice guidelines.  Students will learn how to incorporate outcome-measures into evidence-based practice and research as well as understand how to interpret the findings from intervention studies.