كورس البحث العلمي

This course is an introduction to health care research. Emphasis is on the research process,
commonly used research designs and methods, and application of research findings and other
evidence to practice.
This course explores the necessary skills to design, undertake and disseminate research. The course
considers the basic steps, methods and strategies of the research process. It includes the
identification and exploration of a research problem with its significance and rationale, the literature
review, the formulation of the aims, objectives, research questions and hypotheses, the research
methodology focusing on the different types of design and their interrelation with the research
question, the sample characteristics and sampling strategies and the plan of analysis. Issues of
research ethics are discussed and emphasized.
The course initiates the students to the importance of research in the healthcare sciences and in
supporting an evidence-based practice. It helps students sharpen their critical thinking and scientific
curiosity, get familiar with the search strategy and the critical selection and reading of scientific
articles and develop their teamwork capacities and their listening, exchanging, and persuasive skills.