From: Health professionals learning qualitative research in their workplace: a focused ethnography
#Phase and month | Content | Activity | Didactic method | Expected output |
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#1 month 1 | Introduction to qualitative research and GT, along with the value of the research question | Teachers explain how to define a GT research question and trainees write a possible one | Lecture | Drafting a research question |
#2 month 1 | Is my research question new? | Every trainee performs a literature search | Individual work | Redefinition of the research question |
#2 month 1 | The research question in GT | Teachers discuss each research question, and choose the three that are correct and most feasible | Class discussion, guided by teachers | Formation of three research groups and definition of the PI |
#2 month 2 | The groups’ research questions | Each group, guided by PI, re-defines the research question | Group discussion without teachers | Reaching an agreement |
#2 month 2 | The groups’ research questions | Each group PI explains and discusses the final version of the research question | Class discussion, guided by teachers | Redefinition of the research question |
#2 month 2 | Writing a GT research protocol for the EC | Teachers explain how to write a GT research protocol and the local EC requests | Lecture | Definition of the protocol contents |
#2 month 2 | The qualitative interview | Every trainee studies material about qualitative interviewing and keeps writing the research protocol | Individual work | Drafting possible themes for the interview |
#2 month 3 | The qualitative interview guide | Teachers counsel each group regarding the proposed interviews | Group discussion with teachers | Shared definition of the interview guide |
#2 month 3 | Open coding | Teachers explain what GT coding is and invite each group to open code an interview sample | Class work, tutored by teachers | Completion of the interview open coding |
#2 month 3 | Focused coding and the inter-coders’ agreement | Teachers invite each group to reach an agreement on the focused coding of the interview sample | Group work, tutored by teachers | Reaching an understanding of focused coding |
#2 month 3 | Ethical aspect of qualitative research | Teachers explain how to accomplish research ethics and provide information about the documentation to be presented to the EC | Lecture | Writing informed consent and collecting the documentation requested by the EC |
#2 month 4 | Writing the research protocol | Each group finalizes the writing of the protocol | Individual and group work | Submission of the research protocols to the EC |
#3 month 7 | The initial sampling | Each group gets access to the field and collects the first interviews | Individual and group work | Having at least 7 interviews conducted and transcribed |
#4 month 8 | Open coding | Each group codes the first interviews | Individual and group work, tutored by teachers | Open codes |
#4 month 9 | Focused coding | Each group discusses the provisional focused coding with teachers | Group work, tutored by teachers | Definition of focused categories. Each group keeps interviewing and coding |
# 5 month 9 | Theoretical sampling and saturation | Teachers define the method for following the theoretical sampling with trainees and explain saturation | Lecture and group work, tutored by teachers | Definition of the final sample characteristics |
# 5 month 10 | Final data collection and analysis | Each group performs focused coding on the data collected | Individual and group work, tutored by teachers | Reaching saturation |
#5 month 11 | Theoretical coding | Teachers explain theoretical coding and the procedure for working theoretically with the data | Lecture and group work, tutored by teachers | Drafting the theoretical model |
#6 month 11 | Findings | Each PI reports the findings | Class discussion, guided by teachers | Having the findings validated by colleagues |
#6 month 12 | Writing the report | Each group writes the final research report and documents the steps of the research process for the EC | Individual and group work, tutored by teachers | Having 3 reports written |