CCC Health & Medical Sciences

Resources for Create, Communicate, Connect with Health & Medical Sciences - for more information about the courses, please see course outlines.

Each semester, the MLC runs a week of workshops for CCC Health & Medical Sciences. The topic is 'Communicating and creating arguments using data' and involves various group activities to use data to visualise relationships. 

The first activity involves discussing several newspaper articles (from the Body+Soul liftout in the Sunday Mail) and how data is used to communicate ideas.

• Newspaper article activity (PDF)

Dr Emma Muhlack has discovered some of the original research articles that the newspaper articles above were based on, for your interest.

• Team sports and life satisfaction
• Arthritis and physical activity
• Sad movies as pain relief

The second activity involves using a set of data cards showing pretend people to investigate relationships between health information about people.

• Data cards to print (PDF)
• Virtual data cards at PlayingCards.io
• Spreadsheet of data from the data cards (Excel)