Module manager: Anna Winterbottom
Email: a.e.winterbottom@leeds.ac.uk
Taught: Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) View Timetable
Year running 2025/26
Completion of MBChB Year 3
| MEDI4227 | Campus to Clinic Advanced 4 |
ESREP MEDI4226
This module is not approved as a discovery module
The ENQUIRE Dissertation (ENQD) module supports students to carry out a clinically relevant and novel research, audit, or service evaluation project of their choice under the supervision of an academic, clinician or researcher. Students will draw on their learning about research, audit and evaluation methods from the ENQUIRE year 1-3 modules, and apply their skills to a clinical area of interest to them. ENQD-4 module enables students to take responsibility for driving, shaping, and completing their project alongside their wider clinical and academic training. ENQD-4 provides campus-based learning, digital resources, and assessments to support student planning and engagement with the work needed to initiate, carry out, a clinically relevant project in a timely manner, and learn appropriate clinical governance including ethics and information management. Students will be supervised by a research active academic, clinician or postgraduate student in the University or other local medical or healthcare setting, providing expertise across a range of clinically relevant medical contexts. Supervisors provide guidance on a dissertation area relevant to different project types including healthcare service evaluation and audit, translational and clinical research in NHS clinical teams, patient and public involvement and engagement (PPIE), clinical service management, applied health research, and medical education.
On completion of this module, students should be able to ...
ENQD aims to provide medical students with the scope to apply scientific methods and approaches when developing and carrying out a research, audit or evaluation project of relevance to clinical decisions, healthcare delivery or patient experience.
ENQ4 enables students to demonstrate their acquisition and application of learning from across the ENQUIRE curriculum (years 1-5). Specifically ENQ4 assesses student ability to:
• Understand how to question current practice, and apply structured methods to find evidence-
informed solutions to improve everyday clinical practice.
• Develop skills to develop a project idea through protocol development and critical appraisal of
the literature.
On completion of ENQ4, the student will be able to:
Subject specific learning outcomes:
LO1 Identify, plan and carry out a study linked to a relevance area of medical and clinical practice.
LO2 Integrate empirical articles, clinical guidelines, and UK policy to identify a relevant clinical problem for investigation.
LO3 Formulate a research question for a study designed to generate evidence of relevance to a clinical problem.
LO4 Apply for appropriate research governance and ethics in ensuring the rigour of a study.
LO5 Co-lead the planning and organisation of a study
LO6 Work collaboratively and communicate effectively to plan and manage the study within a set timeframe
Skills learning outcomes:
ENQUIRE-D projects are student led and will develop skills in time management, planning and organisation (WRS9; AS9)
Project tasks will vary between projects and require students to demonstrate adaptability and flexibility (WRS17)
Students are required to communicate effectively and work with others, i.e., their project partner and supervisors (ES1)
The project protocol and literature review will develop academic writing skills, information searching and referencing (AS3, AS7, AS8)
There are a series of introductory lectures at the end of Year 3 to introduce students to ENQUIRE D, including teaching on quality improvement methods, module overview, and literature searching. At the start of year 4, the lecture on literature searching is repeated. The remainder of the module will be student led, i.e., students will arrange meetings with their supervisor and project partners on an ad hoc basis, and to meet the demands of the individual projects, e.g., to collect data, discuss details of the project and receive informal feedback from supervisors.
| Delivery type | Number | Length hours | Student hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| Visit | 10 | 4 | 40 |
| Supervision | 10 | 1 | 10 |
| Lecture | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Seminar | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| Independent online learning hours | 10 | ||
| Private study hours | 137 | ||
| Total Contact hours | 53 | ||
| Total hours (100hr per 10 credits) | 200 | ||
Students can request informal feedback on assignments and project plans from their supervisors on an ad hoc basis. In the spring term, students receive formal feedback in the form of the supervisors report, which reports of student progress and engagement and ascertains if the project is on track for completion in Year 5.
| Assessment type | Notes | % of formal assessment |
|---|---|---|
| Coursework | Written protocol 2000 words | 0 |
| Coursework | Supervisor progress report | 0 |
| Total percentage (Assessment Coursework) | 0 | |
Coursework is assessed using a pass/fail criteria, rather than components providing a percentage of an overall mark. Students are required to pass each component in order to pass the year. These assessments are essential components of the final ENQUIRE dissertation, and students are required to complete these components to a sufficient standard to pass over the summer, and before the start of year 5. If students fail the supervisor progress report, students are required to submit a plan of what work they will do, and when, in order to get the project time-line back on course for completion in year 5. Supervisors will review the plan before the end of Year 4 to ensure that the student is on track to progress to Year 5.
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Last updated: 30/04/2025
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