Summer School: Qualitative Research for the Applied Health Disciplines

Course Content
Qualitative methods have attracted wide appeal within the health disciplines because of their capacity to capture the complexity and context that are not amenable to quantitative approaches. Because the methodological tradition underlying most conventional qualitative approaches derives from the social sciences, many health researchers have struggled to find applications that are relevant, rigorous, and true to the nature of the phenomena about which they are concerned.

Learning objectives, training objectives
participants will be introduced to the history and tradition
of qualitative methodology and to evolving trends in methodological application in order to situate method within the larger context of an evidence-informed knowledge transfer imperative.

Target Audience
Master graduates and doctoral students, faculty members and researchers from all health care disciplines

Qualifications
Master Diplom /Participants should have successfully completed graduate level introductory or survey courses in research methodology and have a basic familiarity with health research concepts

Accreditation
Center of Accreditation and Quality Assurance on the Swiss Universities

Local Organizer
Institut für Pflegewissenschaft

Notes
Seating is limited to 40 persons. Closing date for registration is May 21, 2013

Ms. Brenda Marcus