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RAWALPINDI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY

Institutional Research Forum (IRF)

The first ever Institutional Research Forum of RMU was formulated by Prof Muhammad Umar, the Vice  Chancellor of RMU, in January 2014 that supervises all the research activities of RMU and Allied Hospitals.

IRF comprises of following eight members of RMU from various specialties:

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RESEARCH UNIT

Research Unit of Rawalpindi Medical Univeristy was established in February 2014. It is located in Medical Education Department, New teaching Block of RMU. Dr Faiza Aslam, Research Coordinator of RMURMU and Allied hospitals is in charge of Research Unit. The Research Unit carries out all the research related activities including facilitation and individual counseling of undergraduates, post graduate trainees and faculty of RMU regarding Health Systems Research, proposal formulation, basic and advanced research methodologies, data entry and analysis and manuscript writing.

APPRAISAL BY INSTITUTIONAL RESEARCH FORUM

Any individual (students, faculty members or doctors of either RMU or those belonging to any other institution) interested in conducting research or data collection phase at RMU or any of its Allied Hospitals (Benazir Bhutto Hospital, Holy Family Hospital or District Head Quarters Hospital) must get approval by Institutional Research Forum of RMU. The standard procedure is as follows:

  1. Download any of the following Research Application Proforma, accordingly:
    • Research Application Proforma for Undergraduates of RMU.
    • Research Application Proforma for Faculty members/Departmental Research of RMU.
    • Research Application Proforma for Post Graduate Trainees of RMU.
    • Research Application Proforma for Visitor Researchers.
  2. Fill it electronically. Get it endorsed by your supervisor/Head of department/Principal Investigator and submit its eight copies along with research proposal and data collection tools at research unit of RMU. It should be submitted at least one week before meeting. Kindly read the undertaking section of application form carefully.
  3. Then you will have to make a five minutes presentation on PowerPoint in monthly meeting of IRF, to be held on second Saturday of every month.
  4. The IRF will review and approve it and within one week period you will receive approval letter of IRF endorsed by all members. Only then anyone can initiate research.

INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH COUNSELING

At the research unit, individual and group counseling regarding all the research related activities including topic selection, literature search, referencing system, plagiarism detection, proposal formulation, study methods and materials, sample size calculation, selection of study variables, data collection tools, techniques, pretesting, data entry, analysis, manuscript writing etc is provided. Free of cost counseling and assistance is provided to all undergraduates, post graduate trainees, and faculty and visitor researchers of RMU. The research unit provides consultations on Mondays and Thursdays of every week.

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Research Coordinator conducts following Research Methodology Workshops for the undergraduates and faculty members of RMU:
Basic Research Methodology Workshop: A two days course regarding basic concepts of research methodologies and provision of hands on experience of research proposal formulation, literature search and plagiarism checking procedure, types of variables, data collection tool development, plan for data entry and analysis procedure, work plan and budgeting and plan for manuscript writing.
Advanced Research Methodology Workshop: A two days course, providing advanced concepts of research methodologies, provision of hands on experience of data entry in Statistical Package of Social Sciences, basic and advanced statistical and epidemiological concepts. It also includes hands on experience of data analysis manually and also through SPSS, Graph construction in SPSS and Microsoft Excel.
Literature Review Workshop: A one day course including introduction to topic selection for research, problem statement, literature search techniques and tools, plagiarism detection and prevention, referencing systems.
Research Proposal development Workshop: A one day course including basic concepts of research methodologies and provision of hands on experience of research proposal formulation, literature search and plagiarism checking procedure, types of variables, data collection tool development, plan for data entry and analysis procedure, work plan and budgeting and plan for manuscript writing.

RAWALIANS STUDENTS RESEARCH SOCIETY

First ever Rawalian Students Research Society was established in March 2014, comprising of all undergraduates of RMU, from all five academic years. About 10-15 members of RSRS are selected annually and they assist the Research Unit in coordinating all the research activities of undergraduates of RMU.

STUDENTS JOURNAL OF RMU

All the undergraduates of RMU, who received research guidance from research unit and also those who attended the research workshops, formulate their own research proposals and present them to IRF for appraisal. Students carry out their research independently and formulate manuscripts that are submitted to Students Supplement of Journal of Rawalpindi Medical University. It includes original articles and case reports formulated by Undergraduates of RMU, individually or in groups.

RESREACH DIRECTORY OF RMU

All the information regarding research activities, research projects, research workshops/conferences attended as well as those facilitated and publications till 31st December 2013, of various departments of RMU and its three Allied hospitals was gathered, compiled and printed in August 2015 titled as Research Directory. Its the first ever anthology of all the research activities of RMU, by its various departments and publications in national and international journals by its faculty members. Formulation of Research Directory of 2014-2015 is in progress.

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