Competencies and capabilities

The goals of the third-cycle health care sciences study program are to provide and develop the fundamental knowledge and understanding and the ability to use the following subject-specific competencies:

• Use of research designs and methods in a clinical environment
• Performance of basic and applied research, supporting progress through research work, use of new research techniques and approaches
• Ability to evaluate the needs for research and evidence-based practice
• Ability to implement changes and evidence-based practice, manage research teams and projects 
• Search for new sources of scientific knowledge

• Ability to conceptualise, plan and implement projects for creating new knowledge, collaborate on understanding the knowledge in practice and its application, ability to foresee the related issues
• Ability to make an assessment in a complex situation with sparse data and solve complex challenges
• Ability to clearly and effectively communicate ideas and conclusions to scientific, professional and general audiences
• Performance of basic and applied research, supporting progress through research work, use of new research techniques and approaches
• Personal responsibility, motivation, professional attitude, developed critical thinking about research problems
• Understanding of the importance of knowledge for academic development
• Analysing health trends and issues and the challenges in the areas of health care performance and effectiveness; creating a strategy for solving challenges related to health care as a science, system, process, phenomenon and policy 
• Comprehensive understanding of research work at Level 8 under the European Qualification Framework
• Contribution of research work in the developing area of health care sciences that brings together the scientific and the professional development of nursing care, health promotion and health care management as scientific disciplines through research and development of their own theories

• Recognizes and understands the ethical issues of research related to health, medical treatment and health care as a system and as a policy
• Carries out a representative study independently across all stages of the research process
• Is responsible for managing interdisciplinary and interprofessional tasks within health sciences and more broadly
• Participates in debates within health sciences and more broadly and presents the results of own research at national conferences; prepares a research report and publishes research work in a peer-reviewed science journal
• Estimates the need for changes in health sciences and encourages, proposes and justifies them 
• Will have advanced knowledge in scientific work in the area of health care sciences with a possible focus on nursing care, health promotion and health care management
• Will have advanced knowledge and skills necessary to independently use scientific research methods and critically form new scientific findings
• Will be aware of the key research problems within their own scientific discipline
• Will acquire advanced knowledge about the general theory of science and their own discipline so they can keep up with and help shape their development
• Will acquire the skills needed for international research and project work
• Will acquire a broader understanding of the importance of a theoretical foundation for their research area and will use different research designs
• Will have advanced knowledge of shaping new knowledge that is based on collaboration between academic research teams and clinical environments
• Will have the skills required to recognize and transfer knowledge from other scientific disciplines
• Will acquire the most advanced skills in the areas of research, critical thinking and evaluation, research methods and ethics
• Will have the skills required to take on positions of responsibility within the scientific discipline and different organizations