Using qualitative research in the classroom

Warren Bareiss

doi:10.4081/qrmh.2023.11429

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Warren Bareiss Department of Fine Arts & Communication Studies, University of South Carolina Upstate, Spartanburg, South Carolina, United States.

Welcome to Volume 7, Number 1 of Qualitative Research in Medicine & Healthcare. As I read through each of the articles in this issue, it occurred to me that they are surprisingly similar in technique, but widely divergent in topic. Indeed, taken together, articles in this issue provide a useful lesson in how to effectively conduct qualitative research.

I speak from experience. I am fortunate in being paid to teach a course in research methods to polite, engaged undergraduates who are genuinely eager to learn. In the course, I cover research ethics, journal article structure, deductive vs. inductive approaches, and basic techniques used in quantitative and qualitative research. Not surprisingly, teaching qualitative research is my favorite part of the course, so I save it for the end. [...]

Vaughn, R. M., Bagatell, N., McGovern, H., Feinberg, R., Hendry, K., Chowdhury, R., Cassidy, J. M. (2023). Politics, policies, and patient care: rehabilitation therapists’ experiences during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Qualitative research in Medicine and Healthcare, 7(1), 10823. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/07380577.2023.2175291

Clobes, T. A., Alonge, H. C. (2023). Young Latina college students’ perspectives on mask-wearing post lifting of mask mandates. Qualitative research in Medicine and Healthcare, 7(1), 10837.

Thiart, M., O’Connor, M., Müller, J., Holland, N., Bantjes, J., (2023). Operating in the margins: Women’s lived experience of training and working in orthopaedic surgery in South Africa. Qualitative research in Medicine and Healthcare, 7(1), 10902.

Bareiss, Warren. 2023. “Using Qualitative Research in the Classroom”. Qualitative Research in Medicine and Healthcare 7 (1). https://doi.org/10.4081/qrmh.2023.11429.