By the end of the course; the participants will be able to:
✅ Discuss the principles of scientific writing
✅ Describe the basic steps of publication of an article
✅ Identify the common journal-style of scientific article
✅ Discuss the IMRAD structure for writing an article
✅ Write efficiently the materials and methods in an article
✅ Display clearly the results in an article
✅ Discuss competently the results
✅ Draw efficiently the conclusions
✅ Write clearly an abstract
Discuss the issues in scientific writing including the plagiarism, authorship, ghost writing etc.

Lectures
Small group discussion
Assignments

A classroom for  maximum  25 participants
Flip chart
Multimedia and laptop
Stationary
Reading materials will be provided as soft at the beginning of the course.

By the end of the course, the participants are expected to be able to:
✔ Describe skillfully the outlines of the research proposal and the report writing.
✔ Define the research and its significance in solving health problems.
✔ Select, define, describe, state and justify and the research problem.
✔ Formulate general and specific research objectives.
✔ Discuss the outlines of the literature review process.
✔ Identify and enlist the study variables based on the specific objectives.
✔ Use competently the list of variables to develop a questionnaire.
✔ Describe the common methods and tools of data collection.
✔ Conduct data display and presentation.
✔ Describe the various sampling techniques.
✔ Estimate the sample size correctly using the different strategies for determining the sample size including the appropriate software i.e. EPI INFO.
✔ Recognize the importance of the main computerized statistical packages and their applications.
✔ Describe and identify the various categories of the study designs.
✔ Cite correctly the references in the text and the list using the standard citation styles.

✔ Describe the history of research ethics
Recognize the principles of research ethics
Discuss the important aspects of ethics in research involving human subjects.

✔ Develop and obtain an informed consent from research participants.
✔ Discuss the objectives, functions and barriers of the institutional review boards
✔ Describe the process of obtaining the ethical clearance through the usage of the standard format.

?The following are the skills need to be emphasized during the course:

✅ Research topic selection and identification.
Formulation of research objectives.
✅ Identification/enlisting of variables.
Formulation of a questionnaire.
✅ Selection of a study design.
✅ Estimation of sample size.
Usage of computerized statistical package.
✅ Data display.
✅ Reference citation.

After completion of the course, the candidates will:
✔ Describe the changes and challenges of medical education
✔ Discuss the theories of Adult Learning, Learning approaches & learning situations
✔ Discuss social theory of learning
✔ Describe the modes of leadership in learning
✔ Explain the roles of teacher
✔ Describe Bloom’s and revised Bloom’s taxonomy of learning domains.
✔ Write correctly instructional objectives based on Bloom’s taxonomy.
✔ Design educational courses using standard format.
✔ Organize and facilitate learning in large groups including learning situations, preparing for a lecture etc
✔ Organize and facilitate learning in small groups: situations & approaches, case-based learning, problem-based-learning and seminars
✔ Facilitate and evaluate practical sessions
✔ Discuss principles of e-learning in medical education
✔ Describe Simulation-based Medical Education (SBME) as a training method using models or virtual reality, with feedback in order to improve skills.
✔ Use efficiently appropriate technology in teaching
✔ Use Miller’s Pyramid for assessing clinical competence in medical education
✔ Recognize important terms and types of evaluation/assessment.
✔ Describe steps of students’ assessment (measurement, evaluation, and interpretation, decision-making).
✔ Use efficiently the measurement instruments and assessment procedures (blueprinting, construction of items & exams, standard setting, results & item analysis.

Lectures
Small group discussion
Assignments
Case studies
Exercises