Course Description
This seminar is the second of four seminar courses required for the PhD in Health Services Research. In the course, students will review specific aims from faculty that have presented in seminar I and develop their own specific aims towards developing a research proposal across the three seminars.
Athena Title
HSR Seminar II
Prerequisite
HPAM 8011
Semester Course Offered
Offered spring
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Student learning Outcomes
- Students will be able to conduct literature reviews in the field of health services research.
- Students will be able to discuss approaches to develop literature reviews into systematic reviews.
- Students will be able to identify gaps in scientific literature.
- Students will be able to develop research questions, study aims, and hypotheses.
Topical Outline
- 1. Introduction to the seminar and seminar sequence in the series
- 2. Approaches to literature review and types of literature
- 3. Synthesize literature
- 4. Identify confirmatory vs exploratory research
- 5. Develop research questions and hypothesis
- 6. Draft conceptual framework and develop research strategy
- 7. Identify analytic strategies and available datasets
- 8. Develop research aims (realistic, achievable)
