Fostering Educational Research among Medical Teachers: Evaluation of a Faculty Development Program in India

Srivastava TK, Waghmare LS, Rawekar A, Mishra VP.Fostering Educational Research among Medical Teachers: Evaluation of a Faculty Development Program in IndiaJ Clin Diagn Res. 2016 Dec;10(12):JC09-JC11. PMID: 28208883There is almost always a discussion on how we lack a research culture in India. And that faculty need to instill such a culture in students. This article talks about the MCI initiative - a one year Faculty Development Program that was started in 2014. The article is an evaluation study at one of the ten nodal centres that run this program. The authors mention that 32.5% of faculty who went through this program,…
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Short Course on Biostatistics & Epidemiology for Clinical and Public Health Research using SPSS, Department of Biostatistics at CMC, Vellore, April 3-April 4,2017

The Department of Biostatistics at Christian Medical College, Vellore is organizing a "Short Course on Biostatistics & Epidemiology for Clinical and Public Health Research using SPSS" from April 3-6, 2017. The last date for registration is 24th March, 2017 and the registration would be done on first come first serve basis. For further information see the brochure - CMC Brochure 
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Operations Research in Public Health, IIPH-D, March 28- March 31,2017

The Indian Institute of Public Health, Delhi (IIPH-D) which is established by the Public Health Foundation of India (www.phfi.org), has a series of workshops for 2016-2017. They are currently inviting applications for a workshop on Operations Research in Public Health from March 28 to 31, 2017. The last date for enrollment is March 14, 2017.   For more information visit:https://phfi.org/component/jcalpro/view/242/456 Apply now !
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