Faaiz Alhamdani
Ibn Sina University of Medical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Iraq
Title: Medical Research from Realism to Abstractism
Biography:
Faaiz Alhamdani finished his PhD in Newcastle University, UK in 2012. Part of his PhD project was qualitative study on patients’ experiences with blow-out fractures of the orbit. Since then he became interested in qualitative research methodologies. Beside his interest in qualitative research he is also interested in educational research and quality of life research, particularly in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. He works now as Vice Dean for Scientific Affairs, College of Dentistry, Ibn Sina University for Medical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Baghdad-Iraq. He joined IADR 2010. From 2010-2016 he worked as Iraqi Division Secretary. On August 2016 he was elected as President of Iraqi Division. From 2012 he co-organized most of Iraqi Division (IAOR) events and in August, 2017 he was the main organizer and President of the 4th IAOR Scientific Conference in Antalya Turkey. He is also member of The American Association for Advancement of Sciences.He is a writer, poet and fine art critic. He published 3 collections of poetry book and 4 books on fine art.
Abstract:
During the last 2 decades, the medical research underwent a gradual transition from purely quantitative research (post-positivist) to endorse qualitative research (interpretivist) paradigm. This article tries to shed a light on this transition and use fine art examples as analogy. For the sake of clarification it is important to explain some of the terms used in this article for readers whom their interest might be out of the scope of qualitative research or fine art.