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
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 3
small grants (1,500 L.E each) offered by CFGPS to carry out a research project
with supervision form FOCUS.
A call
for application would be launched with a deadline of 4th April 2014.
Application
will be published on FOCUS official webpage:
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 then 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 101
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
publication
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 one of the 3 grants 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 5 to the CFGPS to select the final 3 winners 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
جمعية رعاية وأصدقاء مرضى الجهاز الهضمي
