The Scientific Affairs Unit at the College of Pharmacy held an online seminar entitled (Overview of Mixed Methods) delivered by Dr. Ali Aziz Ali from the Clinical Pharmacy Branch dealt with the basics of using and conducting dual methods in community pharmaceutical research. The workshop aimed to train researchers in the field of community and clinical pharmacy on the use of quantitative research methods that might the Iraqi scholars do not know much about. The lecture included different topics such as the main types of these methods, requirements and objectives, so one of the most famous types is the combination of quantitative or traditional research, which depends on numbers and statistical results, with qualitative research that depends on individual or group interviews with the participants in an event.
The speaker pointed to the need to train postgraduate students to conduct such type of research, which has become increasingly popular, especially in developed countries such as the United States, especially in the field of community and clinical pharmacy, which needs the researcher to listen to the opinion of specialists and experience and document their interviews with an audio recording in which sentences and phrases can be transformed into results that serve to interpret quantitative and clinical results, complement and add to them. Other times, interviews are conducted at the beginning of the research in order to form an experience and a preliminary idea of the research before conducting the second part, which depends on collecting digital samples and analyzing them statistically. Introducing this type of studies to increase experience and expand scientific research methods for professors and researchers in the field of medical and community pharmaceuticals, which survey the opinions of patients, health care providers or the general public on a topic related to health services and others. One of the attendees was a professor from outside Iraq who worked in this specialty in Malaysian, Libyan and UAE universities. The workshop was attended by many postgraduate students in the field of clinical pharmacy, whether doctoral or master’s students, in order to learn information that they may use when completing their research studies..