ILOs

• Understand the importance of Audit in terms of making change in clinical practice
• Describe the placebo effect and its implications for clinical practice and scientific investigations

Clinical Audit

• Domains of health service delivery and quality improvement
• "What do we want healthcare to be?"
• What is clinical governance?
• What is the difference between Audit, Evaluation and Research?
• What is clinical audit?
• Why undertake clinical audit?
• Outline the essential elements of clinical audit
• What can be audited?
• Describe the clinical audit cycle
• Examples of clinical audit

Placebo Effect

• Describe the placebo effect
• What are some of the extrinsic circumstances that contribute to the placebo effect?
• What are some neurobiologic mechanisms that contribute to the placebo effect?