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Introduction to Qualitative Methods in Health Sciences
Provider: Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences

Activity no.: 3738-19-00-00 
Enrollment deadline: 04/02/2019
Date and time04.03.2019, at: 09:00 - 07.03.2019, at: 16:00
Regular seats14
Course fee4,680.00 kr.
LecturersThordis Thomsen
ECTS credits2.80
Contact personGudrun Kaldan    E-mail address: gudrun.kaldan.01@regionh.dk
Enrolment Handling/Course OrganiserPhD administration     E-mail address: phdkursus@sund.ku.dk

Aim and content
This is a generic course. This means that the course is reserved for PhD students at the Graduate School of Health and Medical Sciences at UCPH. Anyone can apply for the course, but if you are not a PhD student at the Graduate School, you will be placed on the waiting list until enrollment deadline. After the enrolment deadline, available seats will be allocated to the waiting list.

The course is free of charge for PhD students at Danish universities (except Copenhagen Business School). All other participants must pay the course fee.

Course title
Introduction to Qualitative Methods in Health Sciences

Learning objectives
A student who has met the objectives of the course will be able to:

1. Describe and compare different types of qualitative approaches
2. Discuss the appropriateness of different qualitative approaches in relation to a research question
3. Identify and plan an appropriate design in own study
4. Put into perspective the use of a specific qualitative approach in own research

Content
The course includes an introduction to qualitative inquiry using various approaches (phenomenology, hermeneutics, narrative inquiry, ethnography) and relevant approaches to data collection (interviews, participant observation and field work) and analysis of data (content analysis, thematic analysis, narrative analysis, phenomenological analysis).

Participants
Participants are PhD students and other postgraduate researchers conducting qualitative studies.

Relevance to graduate programmes
The course is relevant to PhD students from the following graduate programmes at the Graduate School of Health and Medical Sciences, UCPH:

Clinical Research
Public Health and Epidemiology

Language
Danish or English

Form
Each approach is presented in lectures and discussed with the participants during workshops where participants present their own studies. Questions related to each approach are answered during group discussions.
The 4 day course provides an overview of the use of qualitative methods using a combination of practical workshops, group discussions and formal lectures. The course is based on active participation all course days.

Course director
Thordis Thomsen, associate professor, senior researcher, Department of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Abdominal Centre, Rigshospitalet, DK
thordis.thomsen@regionh.dk

Teachers
Ingrid Egerod, professor, Rigshospitalet, Department of Clinical Medicine, UCPH
Julie Midtgaard, associate professor, Department of Public Health, UCPH, Universitetshospitalernes Center for Sundhedsfaglig Forskning, Rigshospitalet, Julie@ucsf.dk,
Bente Appel Esbensen, senior researcher, associate professor, Department of Public Health, Rigshospitalet, Glostrup, bente.appel.esbensen@regionh.dk.
Anne Kjærgaard Danielsen, senior researcher, Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, Department of Gastroenterology

Dates
4 days, 04 March – 07 March 2019.

Course location
Panum Institute

Registration
Please register before February 04th, 2019.

Seats to PhD students from other Danish universities will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis and according to the applicable rules.
Applications from other participants will be considered after the last day of enrolment.


Note: All applicants are asked to submit invoice details in case of no-show, late cancellation or obligation to pay the course fee (typically non-PhD students). If you are a PhD student, your participation in the course must be in agreement with your principal supervisor.

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