The University of Health Sciences (UHS) Lahore is holding a series of workshops to boost research capabilities of postgraduate students, apart from apprising them about contemporary issues in medical research methodologies. The third workshop of the series will be held on July 06 & 07 at UHS. UHS physiology department head Dr Muhammad Arslan, will co-ordinate the workshop.
Dr M Amanullah Khan of College of Physicians and Surgeons, Pakistan (CPSP), Lahore, Dr Sarah Saleem of Aga Khan University, Karachi and Dr M Ashraf Iqbal of Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), will act as faculty facilitators.
The workshop aims at providing an overview of research to the people who intend to enter into the field of medical research for the first time. It will focus on philosophical and ethical bases of research in medical sciences, selection of an area of research and how to choose a research project, research planning, research design and the development of paradigm, writing the research protocol, executing the research project and describing research results, interpretation of results and developing a critical awareness of experimental validity, skills of literature searching and use of information technology, communicating research: successful research writing - scientific paper, thesis or dissertation, and assessment and evaluation of research.
In this regard, UHS vice-chancellor Professor Malik Hussain Mubbashar said that the research process was not simply about the methodology of research design.
Before considering research design, researchers needed to know how to define and refine the research question, he said, adding that the UHS had planted the sapling of medical research in Pakistan and would left no stone unturned to nurture it into a robust tree.
"We believe health research is not a luxury, but an essential need that no nation can afford to ignore", he added.
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