
Unit 2: Developing a practice-based question
Some pointers
- You should develop one practice-based question, all group papers must address this question
- Make sure you focus in on a specific issue, for example ‘Breast cancer treatment’ is too wide!
- Clear, concise and unambiguous questions
- If you find it difficult to select enough papers to address your question, try modifying or widening it a bit.
- Avoid a double barrelled question
- ‘For women diagnosed with breast cancer, what is the emotional impact of diagnosis and what treatments provide the best long term outcomes’. Here you are really asking two completely different questions;
- 1. What is the emotional impact of breast cancer diagnosis and
- 2. What treatments provide the best long term outcomes for breast cancer. This question should also be more focused in terms of population, intervention and outcome.
- ‘For women diagnosed with breast cancer, what is the emotional impact of diagnosis and what treatments provide the best long term outcomes’. Here you are really asking two completely different questions;
- Make sure all your papers all answer the question!
SMILE - Developing a practice based question by Jamie Frankis, Lesley Price, Ima Jackson SHLS and modified by Marion Kelt, Glasgow Caledonian University is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.