RESEARCH METHODOLOGY AND

SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY
By
Dr. Bushra Mehwish (PT)
DPT, MSAPT, CRCP (Dow university of health Sciences)

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Contents of lecture One

Research Fundamentals

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 How to avoid this?

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 How to tackle it?
By applying a problem based learning
approach

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Some considerations you need to remind
your students of

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WHAT IS SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY?

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 Scientific inquiry is seeing what everyone else is
seeing, but thinking of what no one else has thought.

-A. Szentgyorgyi. 1873 (he won the Nobel Prize for

isolating Vitamin C)

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FORMAL DEFINITION TO LEARN

Diligent inquiry or examination of data,

reports, and observations in a search for facts
or principles.
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Times have been changed

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 If I typically talk in terms of my field.
We have more than 100 physical therapy colleges around the world and if we
roughly estimate...
More than 10,000 physical therapists have been graduating every year
You are nothing but a part of crowd...

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Want to stand out of the crowd?
Become a researcher

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Before you
begin...
Remember
that
great things
take
time

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Help each other

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https://www.theladders.com/career-advice/people-generally-want-to-help-each-other-study-finds