MDCRC 6460 - Community-Based/Patient Centered Research Practices

This highly interactive 3-credit course provides skills and knowledge necessary for conducting research that involves the community and/or patients as active members in all phases of the research process. While not a methodology in and of itself, participatory or engaged research is an approach that brings collaboration between end users and researchers together to produce findings that consider the complexity of people's lives, thus producing results that are relevant to the population being studied. The course will cover the principles of participatory/engaged research, partnership development, cooperation, negotiation, and design/methodological approaches such as community-based participatory research, action research, and qualitative methods.