Module GW4730-KP15

Duration

2 Semester

Turnus of offer

each summer semester

Credit points

15

Course of studies, specific fields and terms:

• Master in Health and Healthcare Science 2019, optional subject, Health Services Research
• Master in Health and Healthcare Science 2025, optional subject, Health Services Research

Classes and lectures:

• Applied Health Service Research (project work, 3 SWS)
• Jour Fixe Healthcare Research (seminar, 1 SWS)
• Research and Project Management (lecture, 1 SWS)

Workload:

• 375 hours private studies and exercises
• 75 hours in-classroom work

Contents of teaching:

• Basics of research and project management (phases of a project, definition of project goals, creation of work breakdown structures with work packages, definition of milestones, time planning and time management, self-organisation, management and project coordination in working groups, dealing with difficulties as well as error and crisis management in projects)
• Methods and fields of application of health services research
• Planning and implementation of your own healthcare research project (possibly as a sub-project within an ongoing research project)
• Creating an exposé and a study protocol
• Recruitment of participants
• Carrying out qualitative and/or quantitative surveys
• Data acquisition and data management
• Analysing qualitative and/or quantitative data
• Reporting under consideration of reporting guidelines (e.g. CONSORT, STROBE or SRQR)
• Presentation and discussion of the current status of the project in the group
• Reflection on experiences, own roles and own learning gains within the project

Qualification-goals/Competencies:

• Knowledge and understanding: Students will be able to describe and compare models and methods of research and project management and analyze and evaluate them with regard to their suitability for projects in the context of health services research.
• Knowledge and understanding: Students will be able to describe and compare the significance of the methods and fields of application of health services research and analyze and evaluate them in terms of their suitability for improving health care.
• Use, application and generation of knowledge: Students independently acquire research methodological and methodical expertise required for the project under supervision and apply it in a project in a reflective and reasoned manner.
• Use, application and generation of knowledge: Students are able to coordinate and control the implementation of the planned project under expert supervision. In doing so, they are able to critically reflect on interim results or deviations from the initial conditions or from the project plan that occur, to systematically research any further information that may be required and to adjust the project plan in a justified manner if necessary and in consultation with all those involved.
• Cooperation and communication: Students are able to coordinate, lead and document working group meetings. They recognize potential conflicts in cooperation and deal with errors and difficulties in a reflective and solution-oriented manner.
• Communication and cooperation: Students are able to independently describe the objectives and methodological approach of a health services research project in writing and orally in a manner appropriate to the target group and to represent them to other stakeholders.
• Communication and cooperation: Students are able to give team members appropriate, respectful feedback on work steps and results and to appropriately receive feedback on their own decisions or actions and use it for their own learning processes.
• Scientific self-concept and professionalism: Students are able to analyze the course and results of the project against the background of the framework conditions of health care and their own scope for decision-making and to identify necessary further research needs.
• The students develop scientific reserach with other health professionals.
• Students collaborate with diverse health professions based on mutual respect and shared values.
• Students know that many areas of health care can only succeed effectively through interprofessional collaboration.
• Studnets will be able to communicate with other health care professionals using appropriate professional language.
• Students will be able to integrate the perspectives and expertise of the professional group involved in the provision of care into interprofessional collaboration and see themselves as part of a whole.
• Studnets will be able to explain the principles of interprofessional collaboration and apply them to specific examples.

Grading through:

• project work

Responsible for this module:

• Prof. Dr. phil. Matthias Bethge

Teacher:

• Institute of Health Sciences
• Institute for Social Medicine and Epidemiology
• Prof. Dr. phil. Matthias Bethge
• Mag. rer. nat. Stella Lemke
• Prof. Dr. Kerstin Lüdtke
• Prof. Annette Baumgärtner, PhD

Literature:

• Harris J, Roussel L, Dearman C, Thomas P (2016) : Project Planning and Management. A Guide for Nurses and Interprofessional Teams 2nd ed. Burlington: Jones & Bartlett Learning
• Pfaff H, Neugebauer E, Schrappe M, Glaeske G (Hrsg.) (2017) : Lehrbuch Versorgungsforschung: Systematik - Methodik - Anwendung. 2. Auflage. Stuttgart: Schattauer
• Meyer H, Reher H-J (2016) : Projektmanagement: Von der Definition über die Projektplanung zum erfolgreichen Abschl Berlin: Springer

Language:

• German and English skills required

Notes:

Last Updated:

16.09.2025