Qualitative Research Design Paper

The research design consists of a cross-sectional study which used a sample of expert clinical practitioners entering HEIs. A questionnaire with XX questions and follow-up questions to obtain information in the following five areas was conducted: 1) study programs - plans and programs, 2) students and graduate students, 3) teaching staff, and 4) HEI organisation and regulations. The questions were personal and relied on the individualised responses. The interviews were conducted as part of a wider research whose primary purpose was to develop an understanding of the situation and perspectives of the future development of the health care education system of the HEIs. As a basic research method, a structured interview process was decided upon as the most pertinent questions were chosen that would help reflect the most subjective experiences of the interviewees. The value of qualitative research lies in its ability to deeply explore these elements and form different perspectives, whose concepts, meaning and explanation can be further developed from empirical data findings (Coughlan, Cronin and Ryan, 2013). The study analyses the situation and prospects of development of …show more content…
Leading to the choice of subjects from the viewpoint bias, and to ensure impartiality and to work on the set subjects that are relevant to the subject area, and have a lot of information that can contribute to the determination of features, disadvantages and advantages of the system quality management in health care education (Anibas, Brenner and Zorn, 2009). Ethical issues have been addressed in this type of interviewing, and participants have been informed of the research objectives and the outline of the research (Weaver and Olson, 2006), with the fundamental ethical issues being (1) the subject's consent, (2) privacy, and (3) the confidentiality of