How to make midwifery students understand the connection between scientific perspectives and research questions when writing assignments: Workshop as a method for teaching professional philosophy

In Denmark, we experience that midwifery students find it difficult to understand how research questions and scientific perspectives are related. To promote appreciation and understanding of how the scientific perspective is incorporated in the research questions and choice of methods, we have invented a workshop focusing on scientific perspectives and their influence on a specific chosen problem. In this workshop the students are actively participating working in groups with their chosen research question/problem. The students have been introduced to research methodology within humanity, natural- and social sciences before the workshop. This workshop has not been presented outside the midwifery department at UCN.