Carefully Circling my Proposal
“The more things change the more time I work on my research proposal”
Perhaps that is my new slogan. Hopefully not. I am ready to get to my research.
I haven’t posted for a while about my PhD research as I have done a lot of soul searching over the summer and decided that even though I had a proposal drafted, the study was not for me. It was too far removed from the clinical coal face. So I made a change.
At the end of September, I changed topics and put my old proposal on hold.
My new proposal, just submitted in draft to my committee, focuses on exploring Continuity of Care for end of life patients. I will be looking at Continuity of Care first through interviews with providers. By leveraging work in Genre Theory and Soft Systems Methodology, I will develop some accessible models that describe communication activities of members in a patient’s Circle of Care. Using these models to structure group discussions, I should be able to guide study participants (both providers and IM/IT staff) to develop feasible recommendations to improve Continuity of Care.
This study is focused on generating the recommendations. Work after the study will be on implementing the recommendations within the communities I am working with.
It is an accomplishment, to have gotten to this point and I am looking forward to the next steps.
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