My Plan for Project Design Refinement

I plan to refine my project design and proposal with a few key adjustments. First, my literature review has been edited by my professor and is ready for revision. I will move the literature review introduction to the beginning of the project proposal report and expand it to encompass the rest of the report sections. Then I will develop a brief introduction for the literature review that forecasts its sections.

To expand and details in my methods section. I have a meeting with the Master of Athletic Training coordinators and project chair to review my research design with the intention of finalizing what will be allowed for my study. From this feedback, I can build the remaining details for my methods section and apply for IRB approval. Further development of my research design's limitations is also on my list. Once I have the methods section defined, it will become possible to discover what potential weaknesses might be inherent in my approach.

Next, I want to collect more evidence to justify why usability and UX research are appropriate methods for my research design. Essentially, why I chose them and why other researchers use them. The research I did while writing the literature review revealed other scholars have done research with clinicians working with EMRs, but I want to develop greater understanding of how my study fits into the fields of technical communication, user experience (UX) research, and medical pedagogy.

Finally, I need to outline the potential implications of my research—such as supporting student clinicians’ orientation to patient documentation in electronic medical records (EMR) through the development of curriculum designed from local experience data with solutions customized to specific environments of practice.