INTRODUCTION Professionalism is essential for the development of mature physicians but not much education is devoted to that theme. AIM We aimed to determine the views of undergraduate medical students on medical professionalism. METHODS This was a qualitative study, based on focus groups of the first and fifth-year undergraduate medical students. Transcripts of the focus groups were indepe...

The aims of this paper were to clarify the nature and purpose of qualitative research and to suggest specific guidelines for reporting the results of qualitative studies. Confusion about the purpose of qualitative research and the absence of a standardized format for reporting such research make it difficult to assess the validity of qualitative studies. Four general purposes of qualitative res...

This study examined qualitative research on adolescent pregnancy to determine designs and methods used and to discover emergent themes across studies. Most of the 22 studies reviewed were described as qualitative or phenomenological by design and included samples comprising either African-American and Caucasian participants or African-Americans exclusively. Based on analysis of the collective p...

s, Journal of Consciousness Studies.

The purpose of this paper is to use semantic technology to represent the knowledge for product maintenance . Companies are begining to understand the importance of utilising an effective approach to manage existing knowledge in order to increase their intellectual capital. However, one of the main constraints that have hindered the solution in resolving technical problems has been the efficient...

The most commonly used method for data collection in qualitative research is interviewing. With technology changes over the last few decades, the online interview has overcome time and financial constraints, geographical dispersion, and physical mobility boundaries, which have adversely affected onsite interviews. Skype as a synchronous online service offers researchers the possibility of condu...

This paper discusses adequacy as to the application of Brazilian guidelines, Resolution 196/96(1) and complementaries to qualitative health researches, considering that these are based on non-positivistic paradigms. Frequently, decisions about the research are made together with the studied community. There is a concern with justice and social change. And, since subjectivity can be considered t...

conclusions it seems that prevention of collective quarrel and control on anger could be helpful to decrease the murder rate in society. results in the end, five main contents were found: collective quarrel, honor killing, emotional dissatisfaction, lack of control on anger, and burglary. patients and methods it is a qualitative research making use of content analysis, conducting on 17 male imp...

Qualitative research is an integral part of both academic and non-academic research in various disciplines, including sociology, anthropology, geography, education, health sciences and other social sciences. In order to facilitate the expanding use of qualitative research in various disciplines, newer and more sophisticated exploratory tools that assist qualitative researchers in the entire res...