HEL-8033 Health care service research on and with multiethnic populations - 2 stp

Registration deadline for PhD students and students at the Medical or Odontological Student Research Program at UiT - The Arctic University of Norway: February 1st

Application deadline for external applicants: February 1st

PhD students or holders of a Norwegian master´s degree of five years or 3+ 2 years (or equivalent) or master students at a Medical Student Research Program may be admitted. Valid documentation is a statement from your institution that you are a registered PhD student og master student at a Medical Research Program, or a Master´s Diploma with Diploma Supplement / English translation of the diploma. PhD students are exempt from semester fee.

To take PhD courses you need at a minimum a master's degree or equivalent, or admission to a Medical Student Research Program.

Recommended prereqisites: Philosofhy of science, qualitatice methods, quantitative methods and research ethics.

Knowledge 

• Has knowledge of and reflects critically on theoretical perspectives of relevance for health care service research on and with multiethnic populations, such as perspectives on cultural safety, critical cultural theory, and intersectionality perspectives
• Has insight into and reflects critically on methodological frameworks of relevance for health care service research on and with multiethnic populations, such as indigenous methodology
• Evaluate the expediency and application of qualitative and quantitative approaches to health care service research on and with multiethnic populations

Skills

• Discuss the relevance of multiethnic perspectives in own research
• Explain the implications of using interpreters in health care service research on and with multiethnic populations
• Formulates and reflects critically on the implications of the researchers position as insider and/or outsider in health care service research on and with multiethnic populations
• Can formulate relevant ethical issues in health care service research on and with multiethnic populations

General competence

• Can assess the need for and describe strategies for user involvement in research
• Can participate in debates

The following requirements must be met in order to be admitted to sit the examination ( work requirements): Mandatory participation in course activities.

The course is concluded with paper, 3000 words. Discussion of own research using theoretical framework and/or concepts presented throughout the course.

A grade of pass/fail will be awarded to those who take the course.

In the event that an exam is evaluated as not passed, there will be an opportunity to submit a revised exam paper at the beginning of the next semester.

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