Life cycle of Studentship at the School of Health Sciences for Postgraduate Students
Apply
- Here are the links to forms that you should use when you apply
- Here are the streams of studies
Select your courses
- Depends on your interests
- Several pathways exist and six endorsements, different courses
- Check the Table below and the pathway diagram below to see what works best for you
Block Courses and Regular studies
- What are block courses
- Strategies and hacks to work best for block courses
- Note Taking
- How to best prepare for Open Book and closed book exams
- How to Use Learn as a Student?
- How can I best use Social media for my studies? (What are out there?)
- What is Plagiarism and How do they measure plagiarism?
- How do I best organise my bibliographic data?
- What is bibliographic data?
- What are the different formats?
- A survey of the popular software (BibTeX, versus Endnote versus Mendeley versus Zotero versus Sente versus others)
- Lifehacks that help you to integrate scholarly and annotation data and make sense
- Downloading Stuff from the Web and Searching the Web
- What is the difference between Open source and closed source
- What are legal?
- Why should cite everything that I write in my papers? Which ones are citable and which ones are not?
- What are the different types of Literature Organising Software Out there?
- Wordprocessors versus Others
- Note Taking Apps (Simplenote versus Evernote)
- How to use the Library Resources
- Searching the Library Resources and Take Classes in the Library
Independent Study and Dissertations
- Study Part time or full time (what are the issues there?)
- What is an Independent Study and how do I go about this?
- What is the difference between an Independent Study and a Thesis or Dissertation
- What is the difference between Theses, Dissertations, 120 point theses, 90 point theses, 60 point dissertations
- Options for Dissertations and Theses
- How to write a Dissertation?
- How to write a Research Paper
- How to write a Thesis Enrolment Document? (That is register my topic)
- How to Write a Thesis Proposal
- What Happens After you submit your thesis proposal
- How to Write an Ethics Document? (A short introduction to Human Ethics Research)
The Crafts of Research
- How to Write a good proposal (just key elements)
- How to Develop a Good Questionnaire for a Survey Research
- What are the different types of health research?
- What is Secondary Data Analyses and Why Should I consider?
- What kind of Databases are out there that I should consider for my initial data collection?
- How do I validate questionnaires after I develop them?
How to Analyse Data for My Research?
- What kind of Research: qualitative or quantitative, or Mixed?
- Analysis of Quantitative Data: What software programmes are out there?
- Analysis of Data Using SPSS, R, Stata, and Others?
- Preliminary Analysis of Data Using Excel or Another Spreadsheet Programme
- Data Preprocessing (Codes will be shown using Stata and R)
- Missing Data Handling
- Identifying Data Outliers
- Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA) for managing and handling your data
- Subsetting Data sets, recoding data from one format to another
- Testing Two Variables with Each other
- What are the different types of variables?
- How to set up contingency tables of two discrete variables
- What is chi-square test and how to interpret the different types of test results?
- Testing Two Continuous Variables
- Testing One discrete and one continuous variable
- Good Principles of Graphics
- Bar plots, histograms, pie charts, density plots
- Scatterplots with fit lines
- Other types of plots
- Hypothesis Testing
A giant list of forms and templates (listed according to alphabetical order)