Second Medical Students Research Grant

Scientific research should be one of the top priorities of institutes aiming at improving the quality of healthcare. Promotion of the concept of scientific research would raise a generation of healthcare givers who are aware of the most updated techniques, methodologies, and evidence based practices. In regards, Care and Friends of GIT Patients Society (CFGPS) and FOCUS for capacity building solutions are glad to announce the call for applying to Medical Students Research Grant “Second Round”

Procedures
According to predefined criteria, 15 medical students would be offered a scholarship to raise their capacities in scientific research through a training held by FOCUS and funded by the CFGPS. Students whom would finish the training requirements successfully would be allowed subsequently to enter a competition to earn 1 small grants (1,500 L.E) offered by CFGPS to carry out a research project with supervision form FOCUS.

A call for application would be launched with a deadline of 18 September 2014.

Application will be published on FOCUS official webpage: http://www.focus4courses.blogspot.com/

Click here for submitting your application

Criteria for eligible applicants
1. Medical students or intern or postgraduate.
2. Egyptian students only are offered scholarship. Foreigner students or Egyptian postgraduates are welcomed to apply but
they will pay the training fees of 600 L.E and they could be able to compete for the research grant.
3. Available for at least three hours twice weekly for six weeks since the start of the course.
4. Secure Internet access for home assignments.
5. Able to secure a laptop will be used during session.

After the deadline of application, FOCUS will shortlist participants into 30 candidates, then interviews would be held in the CFGPS office by FOCUS to select the final 15 winners of the scholarship. Interview dates would be advertised on the webpage. Accepted candidates would be asked to pay 100 L.E each as a deposit that will be refunded at the end of the course provided that the candidate had attended at least 80% of training hours.

The Training Course
The course would be held in CFGPS office by FOCUS as follows:

Research Methodology
15 Training hours
After this course, participant would be able to understand research processes and plan small-scale research projects
Primary topics: Basics of research, study design, quantitative and qualitative research, besides research proposal
writing.

Medical Statistics
21 Training hours
After this course, participants would be able to learn about statistics terms, data and perform basic analysis, as there
would be hands on training on SPSS.
Primary topics: Introduction, descriptive statistics, inferential statistics, null hypothesis significance testing.

Scientific Writing
18 Training hours
In this workshop, participants will be aware of scientific publishing, peer review journals, and scientific writing.
Primary topics: Literature review, scientific language and how to write original manuscript, besides online manuscript submission.

The Research Grant
After the training courses, candidates will be asked to submit a research proposal to win the grant offered by CFGPS
provided that he/she:
1. Attended at least 80% of training hours
2. Scored at least 60% on the post test.
3. Submitted a complete research proposal as instructed by the FOCUS trainers. Incomplete applications would be disregarded.

Candidates could apply individually or in teams of maximum 3 members each. It is not allowed to submit more than one proposal. FOCUS trainers will evaluate the proposals and recommend the best 3 to the CFGPS to select the final winner of the grant. Winners will receive 500 L.E at the beginning of the research project, 500 L.E when they hand in the final results to the CFGPS. The final 500 LE when candidates succeeded in publishing their work in a well recognized peer-reviewed journal.

All the best!

FOCUS