CAPACITY BUILDING

  1. JIPMER Advanced Course in Research Methodology (JACRM):

This program is jointly organised by Department of Medical Education and Research Division. Around 20 faculty have registered for the second edition of this course which was launched in August 2023. This includes three phases - Internal modules spanning across various topics like Research Methodology, Biostatistics, Ethics, Scientific writing, adult learning and teaching and Critical thinking, creativity and soft skills and External modules.

  1. PhD Research Capacity building program:

This was conducted for PhD Scholars of JIPMER of 2023 batch for a period of three months from August to September 2023. The program aimed at building the key research skills of the scholars in grant seeking, planning, conduct and publishing of their upcoming research work. The program consisted of five research related modules such as research methods, biostatistics, ethics, good clinical and laboratory practices, and grant writing. Each module had approximately 12-16 sessions and the emphasis was placed on equal representation of interactive sessions, online learning, assignments and self-reading in each module.

  1. SFACTS training, 09th August, 2023: 

The Division of Research organised an orientation and training session on the SFACTS – Project Management Software for use by the Administrative Staff, Principal Investigators and Project Staff fraternity. Training on various modules on SFACTS like Grant, Payables, and Payroll was provided to the admin staff by the resource persons. Queries and doubts raised by the staff were addressed in the session regarding issues and compliance requirements. Discussions were made in various topics including raising Advance, Purchase Order, accounting for TDS on GST for Vendor Bills, GFR rules, Login Credentials for various users, taxation for project staff salary, arrears processing, Chart of Accounts, Interest Calculation, Backup of data etc.

  1. Workshop on “Data Analysis Using STATA”, September 5-6, 2023:

Dr. Nishad Plakkal and Dr. Palanivel were the coordinators for the workshop. Over two days, the sessions gave participants hands-on experience in using STATA for cleaning, manipulating and analyzing data. The topics covered included STATA descriptive statistics, inferential statistics, data labeling, generating new variables from existing variables, commonly used statistical tests, and generating graphs. Regression models and diagnostic tests done in STATA were discussed.

  1. Human Bioethics, 8th September, 2023:

The National Workshop on Human Bioethics was organized by the Department of Clinical Pharmacology, JIPMER Puducherry in association with Department of Pharmacology and Division of Research, on 08.09.2023. A total of 63 delegates attended the workshop from various states from India. The participants included were clinicians & non clinical departments, staff nurse and students with background of allied medical science or basic medical life sciences involved in research

  1. Manuscript writing workshop, October 30th, 2023:

A Manuscript Writing Workshop was conducted by the Division of Research, JIPMER on October 20th 2023 at the Multipurpose Hall, in JISPH Building, JIPMER. This was planned as a ‘hands-on’ workshop where participants would come with a manuscript plan (based on the work done in JIPMER), and the resource faculty would have one-to-one interactions to fine tune the paper and make it ready for submission to a journal. The overall objective was to enhance the capability of junior faculty and resident doctors in preparing high-quality manuscripts and also to increase the publication output from JIPMER. The workshop also aimed to reduce the gap between completed research and publications. Thirteen participants registered for the workshop. Participants were encouraged to complete the manuscripts within two weeks of the workshop and many submissions were completed within the timeline.

  1. Manuscript Writing Workshop for Nursing Faculty, January 12th 2024

The Division of Research, JIPMER, conducted a Manuscript Writing Workshop on January 12th 2024 at the Multipurpose Hall in JISPH Building, JIPMER. This workshop focused on the faculty in the College of Nursing, JIPMER. This was a ‘hands-on’ workshop where participants would develop a draft paper (based on the work done in JIPMER), and the resource faculty would have one-to-one interactions to fine-tune the manuscript and make it ready for journal submission. The objective was to enhance the capability of nursing faculty in preparing high-quality manuscripts and increase the publication output from JIPMER. The workshop also aimed to bridge the gap between completed research and publications.

Fifteen faculty participated in the workshop.  Dr MJ Kumari, Professor, College of Nursing and Dr Prasanth Ganesan, Associate Dean Research were the coordinators of this program. Participants were encouraged to complete and submit the manuscripts to a journal within four weeks. Dr Thappa distributed the certificates and urged the participants to take the messages from the workshop to increase their publication output.

  1. Good Clinical Practices Workshop, March 1, 2024

National workshop on Good Clinical Practices (GCP) was conducted on 01.03.2024, at JISPH auditorium by Dept. of Clinical Pharmacology and Pharmacology in collaboration with division of Research. Members of ethics and scientific committees, faculty, undergraduates, postgraduates, PhD scholars and clinical site coordinators participated in this workshop.