HMET5120 ¨C Qualitative methods

Course content

The course aims to familiarize students with qualitative techniques common in the study of health services, enabling them to carry out their own research. The course will teach students when qualitative research is appropriate, and will also teach them to recognize the methodological choices that face the qualitative researcher. Further, the course will give a practical introduction to collecting and analyzing elite interview data and texts.

Learning outcome

Knowledge

You will gain knowledge on how to:

• recognize the main methods used in qualitative research
• understand when a qualitative approach is suitable
• understand quality criteria in qualitative research

Skills

You will learn how to:

• develop a qualitative Research design
• collect, analyze and present qualitative data
• evaluate presentations of qualitative results
• make use of qualitative data such as elite interviews and texts

General competence

You will be able to:

• recognize the pros and cons of qualitative designs
• manage ethical and scientific standards of qualitative Research

Admission to the course

This course is only available for students at the following master programmes:

• Health Economics, Policy and Management (master)
• European Master in Health Economics and Management (master)

Students who are admitted to study programmes at UiO must each semester register which courses and exams they wish to sign up for in Studentweb.

If you are not already enrolled as a student at UiO, please see our information about admission requirements and procedures.

Overlapping courses

• 5 credits overlap with HMM4104 ¨C Research Design and Qualitative Methods (discontinued).
• 5 credits overlap with HMM4104B ¨C Qualitative methods (discontinued).

Teaching

Lectures and exercises.

Examination

Written examination.

Examination and grading at The Faculty of Medicine.

Examination support material

No examination support material is allowed.

Language of examination

For students at Eu-HEM: English

For students at HEPAM: The problem set will be given in English. Answers can be given in Norwegian, Swedish, Danish or in English.

Grading scale

Grades are awarded on a scale from A to F, where A is the best grade and F is a fail. Read more about the grading system.

Resit an examination

For Eu-HEM students:

An EU-hem student cannot present her or himself for the examination in a course more than two times. There will be held re-sits for EU-hem students who have failed an exam or who have legitimate absence (usually illness) in January and August. If you are entitled to a re-sit you must contact the student advisor via email no longer than one week after the result of the exam has been published.

More about examinations at UiO

• Use of sources and citations
• Special exam arrangements due to individual needs
• Withdrawal from an exam
• Illness at exams / postponed exams
• Explanation of grades and appeals
• Resitting an exam
• Cheating/attempted cheating

You will find further guides and resources at the web page on examinations at UiO.