Short Courses on Biostatistics

Short Courses on Biostatistics

The Biostatistics Resource and Training Center, Department of Biostatistics at Christian Medical College, Vellore is organizing its thirty-sixth Short course in Biostatistics from April 17-24, 2018 at CMC Vellore. The course is designed to introduce the principles of biostatistics, basics of epidemiological research and statistical procedures. It also intended to train researchers to calculate sample size in a simple manner using "nMaster 2.0" software. This course is targeted towards researchers of varied profession such as medicine, public health, life sciences, social sciences, nursing, epidemiology, biostatistics etc. Sr. No. Course Date Last date for Registration 1 Fundamentals of Biostatistics, Principles of Epidemiology…
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Literature searching and the ideal researcher

Literature searching and the ideal researcher

A student, academician or a practitioner of any health sciences stream often needs to search the literature. An ideal researcher should spend a small percentage of time in this activity, and much more on the main research and writing. What is the profile of an ideal researcher in this context?  Someone who has the "information needs", clearly laid out.  Before searching the literature, one has to document the information need clearly. We need to identify literature to reference in the a) introduction and discussion areas, and b) literature that would be closest to our main area of work. The literature…
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Sengupta’s Research Academy

Writing a research project, may be a thesis or an article is something each health professional has to do throughout their medical career (or at least once during one's working life!).  However, many professionals find it difficult due to absence of proper understanding of research writing.  With years of research experience Dr. Sabhyasachi Sengupta felt that, lack of adequate training at in “research techniques” during undergraduate and postgraduate education creates big hurdle in research publication. Sensing this lacuna, he come up with the solution "Sengupta’s Research Academy" . "Sengupta’s Research Academy" is a web based portal dedicated to different aspects of medical…
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