UT Southwestern Health Sciences Digital Library and Learning Center will be a designated ‘host site.’ Registration sign in and certificates will be available on-site.

Understanding Qualitative Research: Exploring the Motivations of Patients and Clinicians (1.5 MLA CE HOURS)

Presenter: Connie Schardt

If studies show that having answers to clinical questions changes patient management over 50% of the time, why do residents fail to answer their clinical question? Quantitative research can count the changes in management but qualitative research is needed to explain the problems with changing behavior.  This webinar will be an introduction to Qualitative Research in health care. After the presentation, participants will be able to describe the differences between qualitative and quantitative research, identify terminology and search filters that make it easier to find qualitative research and using a case based example, evaluate the credibility of qualitative research.

Connie Schardt, AHIP, FMLA, retired as the associate director for research & education for the Medical Center Library & Archives at Duke University in 2013. She is currently adjunct faculty at the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill, where she teaches an online course: Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) and the Medical Librarian. Since 2008, she has been a codirector of the three-day workshop, Supporting Clinical Care: An Institute in Evidence-Based Practice for Medical Librarians, which is now held in Denver, CO. Schardt also codirects the annual Australian Evidence Based Practice Librarians’ Institute, a three-day workshop for medical librarians.

1.  Enter the Florence Building (E building) using doors behind the flags on the campus entrance plaza
2. Take Immediate LEFT (do not enter Library) past the pictures of our Nobel winners
3. At medallions take a LEFT to the elevator bank, go to floor 3 on elevator
4. As you exit the elevator go diagonally across the foyer to your left through the marked doorway to our Health Sciences Digital Library & Learning Center
5. Take hallway to first right - take that hallway to the Library door (floor mat at doorway)
6. Enter and proceed to E3.314E.

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