Transcript RCC Meeting

Prepared by the
SCORE Supervisory Board
 Change
of the meeting date and the
attendance the meetings.
 RCC structure.
 SCORE Bylaws .
 Activities >>> Old & New.
 The process of work and our own experience.
 Ideas & Small Working Group (SWG)
 Every group must update us about the work
they did
 It
was supposed to be hold on 8th or 9th of
September.
 Postponed because of the H1N1 HOLIDAY.
NORE/LORE
Supervisory
Board
Leader
Assistant
Leader
 Presented
by the NORE: Saif Al Ghaffri
Niederlande
Ägypten
Indonesien
Schweiz
Ägypten
Niederlande
Indonesien
Schweiz
Türkei
Taiwan
Ukraine
Spanien
Taiwan
Türkei
Ukraine
Spanien
Portugal
Italien
Kroatien
Russland
Italien
Portugal
Kroatien
Russland
Ungarn
Polen
Chile
Mexico
Polen
Ungarn
Chile
Mexico
Serbien
Japan
Griechenland
Brasilien
Japan
Serbien
Griechenland
Brasilien
Rumänien
Rumänien
 Definition
 The
SCORE bylaws
programme offers medical students organized in
an IFMSA NMO the opportunity to follow research
exchange project in medical sciences.
 Premedical students or students in biomedical field
are eligible to apply.
 SCORE-D
 The
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National Officer on Research Exchange
To organize and maintain the research exchange on the national
level.
To supervise the local committees. ( LORE & SB )
To add new projects into the IFMSA SCORE Database.
To complete the requirements of the in/ out exchange.
Others
 SCORE-SB
 The
Evaluation Formluation Coordinator
 SCORE Regional Assistants
 SCORE Small Working Group Coordinators
 Exchange Training Unit Coordinator
 SCOREview Editor-in-Chief
 Exchange
Conditions
 Projects and Database
 Criteria for Research Exchange projects
 Research Exchange Contracts
 Meetings
 Penalties
>
1700 exchanges/year
 67 countries involved
 1945 research projects
 484 universities around the world
 50 medical fields involved
( Neuroscience, Immunology, Epidemiology, Biochemistry, Pathology, Surgery, Global Health &NTDs,
Physchaitry, Nuclear Medicine, Laser Medicine, Oncology, Medical Ethics, Infectious Diseases,
Pediatrics, Biophyscis, Obs&Gyn…)
 Publications
 Global
Health Projects
 Networks, database, web tools
 PreExchange Trainings& Researh Workshops
 Conferences
 We
sign contracts with 5 countries = 6 units
( Germany, Italy, Turkey, Lebanon, Egypt )
 How
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we work?
Promotion ( posters, e-mail, sms, website &
you ).
Selection ( criteria )
application
Finished semester 6 courses.
 Valid passport for at least 1 year
 Minimum cumulative GPA 2.7
 Did at least 1 research and involved actively in
it.
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Application form
motivation letter
Interview
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
Number of research
Type of research V.S field experience
Publication of the research
Motivation letter
Attending related workshops or activities
Attending conferences:
Being a member of SCORE
SQU-MSG + Pre activity
Year & transcript
Interview
steps to your exchange
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Step 1: Choose projects of interest from the database
Step 2: Read through the Exchange Conditions (EC) of
the country
Step 3: Prepare the Application Form and all other
documents
Step 4: Send your application
Step 5: Card of Acceptance (CA)
Step 6: Card of Confirmation (CC)
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Exchange Fees.
Boarding and lodging
After your Exchange
- Evaluation form & Report
- Publication
For the:
 Tutors
 NORE
 LORE
 Students
 SCORE
Manual for Tutors
 SCORE Leaflet for Tutors
 SCORE Manual on Research Exchange
 Research Ethics Manual (REM)
 NORE E-Ex Manual
Mission of SCORE PET
 To train research exchange outgoing
students with a training program.
 Including: lectures, trainings on
science philosophy, research ethics,
basic biostatistics and intercultural
learning.
a. To increase the scientific and academic recognition of
SCORE by having well trained outgoing research
students
b. To provide exchange students to have a better
exchange and research period by increasing their
scientific knowledge, technical skills, and general
motivation
c. To provide exchange students a better understanding of
the role of research in medicine
d. To help exchange students to perform their research
activities through following ethical principles
e. To prevent exchange students from ethical misconduct
and such behaviors causing to be under suspicion
f. To increase exchange students’ scientific competence in
order to work better with their mentors and research
 Why
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we need it:
Advantage & disadvantage
Adding
Report writing.
Facilitated By: Thuraiya Al Massoudi
 Research
proposals in the field of patient safety.
 Medical students ,newly graduated and young
researchers are encouraged to apply.
 Need to have good idea ,intersting hypothesis.
 Placed in both hospital and community setting.
The aim of the WHO Patient safety projects are:
 To
stimulate research on patient safety
priorities worldwide by providing seed funding
for small research projects.
 To build local research capacity and will help
raise awareness about patient safety and
improve patient safety.
 To identify local solutions or evaluate the
effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of existing
solutions
 Grants
of between 10000$ and 25000$ per
project will be awarded for studies.
 Collaborative projects are encouraged, but
the principal investigator must be affiliated
with an institution in the country in which
the proposed study will be conducted.
 Counterfeit
and substandard drugs
 Maternal and newborn care
 Safe injection practices
 Improving competencies,training and skills
 Communication and coordination across care
pathways
 Latent organizational failures
 Brief
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about it.
(will be Done By Ghalib AL Khoudori)
 What
is the best research idea ?
 The experience of the members of RCC in
this competition.
 The evaluation of the participants will be
done by Dr. Bader Al Deen at the beginning of
the new coming semester.
 The prize will be offered by the college (not
minimum by 150 O.R)
 SWG:
How to promote and advertise for it.
 Show
our present list + participants.
Tutor
Dr. Yasser
Dr. Yasser
Project/Research
Study of IV paracetamol in addition to
1- Hilal salim alhosni
opioids in management of painful episodes in
2- Yarab Mubarak Al-Bulushi
children with sickle cell disease
Hemophagocytic Lymphohistocytosis
Dr.
Continuity of care in primary care
Mohammed
Dr. Amna
Dr. Amna
Dr. Amna
Name / ID / Phone #
1-Ahlam AL-Hamhami
2-Nashwa AL-Kindi
3-Fatma AL-Fahdi
4-Hamida AL-Nabhani
5-SHathra AL-Rwahi
1- Nada Sulaiman Abdullah Al-Rawahi
2- Ruqaiya Mohammed Salim Al Ramadhani
3456-
Prevalence & profile of cerebrovascular
accidents in Omani children
1- Kumait Mushtaq Moosa Al Lawati
2- Abdullah Ali Abdullah Al Lawati
3- AlNaser Mohammed Sulaiman Al-Bahlani
4-
HIE in Neonate
1- Tariq Al araimi
2- Mohammed Hamed Mohammed Al Shukaili
3-Zahran al bahri
4- Humaid Hamood AL-Farai
Neonatal seziure
1- Hassan Abdulredha Dawood Al-Lawati
2-Mustafa Al. Shuaibi
3- Abdulnasser Said Hamed Al-Adawi
4- Khalfan Salim Khalfan Al-Shaaili
Tutor
Project/Research
Name / ID / Phone #
Pulmonary function test in patients
1Dr. Hussein with sickle cell disease in correlation
2- Mahera Juma Saif Al Saqri
with hemoglobin S (B chain haplotype
Dr.
Cloning & sequencing Enteroviruses
Mohannad
1- Fatma alawatya
Development of anticancer conjugate
Dr. Nasser preparation for specific targeting of
solid tumor cells
1- Humaid Al-Adawi
2- Sadiq Juma Al-Lawati
1- Thuraiya Alharthi
2- Rana Kayed
Dr. Omar Omani honey as a histological fixative
3- Abdul nassor Jamal Ahmed Al-Ma'awali
4- Hilal Nasser Bader AL Riyami
1- Mohammed Marhoon Issa Al-Masqari
Social Medicine; how stress and
2-Muna
Dr. Sameer distress is experienced in non-western
3- Mohammed Othman Mohammed Shafeeq
populations.
4-Zuwaina
 Show
our present list + participants.
 Collector of the research presents the
experience and the obstacles they faced.
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Will be done during the meeting by the head of
this group.
 Present
for them where is the deficiency and
advice them with better ways.
 Revised
- AM2009.
 Includes more specific questions.
 Tries to find solutions for usual problems filling
the previous ones.
 It includes the year in the name to remember
the last time that was reedited ;)
 Title
 Professor/Tutors
 Description
of the project (backgroung, aim and
techniques)
 Which category?
 Role of the student.
 What will be the outcome.
 What will the student learn.
 What should the student know/learn before.
 Language (required and accepted)
 Availability, period, lengh
NEEDS TO BE IN THE FORM !
 Should
be descriptive of the
project
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But not include everything!
 Should
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be specific
Yet being understandable
 Name
of the professor
 Name of potentials tutors
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It doesn’t matter if the tutors
change
If they change, the names can
be changed on ifmsa.net
 Name,
address, e-mail and
phone of the department
 At
least 6 lines long.
 At least 2 lines each part:
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Background information
The aim of the project
The methods and techniques used
 The
perfect form would be that of a
scientific abstract
To which category does the
project belong to?
Clinical project without lab work
Clinical project with lab work
Basic Science
 Preliminary
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readings
The names of
articles/books should be
given in the form (later
on)
 Will
the student attend
to lectures or seminars?
 Will there be roundtable discussions?
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Will they be in English?
 What
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Will the student have his/her own project?
 What
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is expected from the student?
Will the techniques be introduced to the student?
 What
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is the student actually going to do?
is the outcome?
Will the paper contribute to an article/poster?
 What
are the practical skills
the student will learn?
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Techniques? Methods?
Examination? Use a computer
program?
 What
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about knowledge?
How is he/she going to get it?
 Should
the student have already
specific skills?
 Be familiar with the techniques
or methods
 Is there any special knowledge or
certain level of studies needed?
 Should the student have already
studied a specific topic?
 Are there any legal limitations?
 If there are no requirements, it
should be said
 Very
important
 Give the names of articles
 OR give key words or authors
with which to search on
PubMed
Are they accepted or required?
 English and local/s language/s should be included in
the lists!
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 Duration
 Working
hours
 Availability
 Medical students? Premedical? Graduated?
Biomedical?
 Facilitated
by Ahlam Al Hamhami
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It is the 2nd research that is conducted
between Gulf Countries.
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1st one was in Bahrin.
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Aims:
To study common problems shared by Gulf
Countries.
To present these research results in GCC.
1.
2.
2.
Chose representatives of SQU to contact main
committee in Kuwait.
Vote in 3 topics:
1.Satisfaction of
3.
Topic modification to (students satisfaction on
1.
students and staff with standard of medical education
in GCC medical universities.
2. Survey of community attitudes about medical
errors.
3.Evaluation of the communication skills with
patients among GCC medical students.
the educational environment in the gcc
medical schools).
4.collect information about all medical schools in
the GCC (No. of students, males/females, nationals/nonnationals... etc) to use them in our research for sampling.
5. choose a representitve sample from each
school.
6. contacting the selected students and ensuring
that they solve the (Dundee Ready Education
Environment Measure) DREEM questionnaire.
7.Currently will start data collection as soon as
electronic DREEM questionnaire is available.
 Presented
by Ahmed Al Saidi
 Responsibilities:
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Update the list of conf from the Assistant dean
Make a list of these conf (time, place, fees,
contact and deadline)
Collaboration with other sub-groups to make adv
for these conf
Offered our self to any authority that may
concern
 Difficulties:
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????
 Conference
list
 Conference Calendar (Zahraa will present it)
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Dead line for submission 31st of October 2009.
Add the GCC conference with the cooperation
other GCC countries.
Add some of doctor-doctor conferences (E.g.
medical, trauma, FAMCO, etc)
Ask about Oman Medical College (OMC) if they
are allowed to participate because they have
their annual student conference (they are not
part of IFMSA).
RCC-SCORE
 Tunisia.
 Mariana (Portugal).
 ]Macedonia
 Implemented the Idea.
 Calendar.
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containing most of the international student
scientific conferences around the world
confs’. every country  1
 Conferences
will have colours similar to
the Olympic rings:
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Yellow: Asia
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Blue: EMR
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Green: Europe
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Red: America
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Black: Africa
 Find
out the local conf.
 Organize
with the O.T. & IFMSA.
 Promote
for the Calendar & the conf.
Presented By: Sama Matwani

STEP: Sudan Tropical Exchange Project..
SCORE Global Health Projects, that aims to
spot the light on the Tropical Diseases among
Doctors, Medical Students & public.
 Is
of three parts:
- Scientific program.
lectures, seminars, lab work, research &
clinical rounds.
- Medical Mission.
free medical care, medications & health
education
- Social program.
 STEP
held in Khartoum, Sudan
 supervised by The Institute of Endemic
Diseases and the Faculty of Medicine,
University of Khartoum.
 Venue: Faculty of Medicine, University of
Khartoum.
 Date: 1st-30th of July, 2009.
 To
promote for STEP among omani medical
students and give them the chance to participate
in this highly educational experience.
 Requirements?
 Methods?
 In
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
 King Abdulaziz University in Jeddh
 Time: 13-16th Feburary 2010
 Website: http://www.gcc7medconf.org/
 Dead line for submitting research abstracts
25/10/2009.
 Forward
this to all whom you know
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Conditions:
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Finished semester 6 courses.
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Valid passport for at least 1 year
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Minimum cumulative GPA 2.7
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Did at least 1 research and involved actively in it.
Application form:
Name, year, id.
Cumulative GPA
Number of research done & experience.
Name of the research wanted and the period wanted
Appendices:
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Motivation letter.
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Recommendation letter from the supervisor explaining the role of the student.
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Research abstract and the research completely.
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If published or won a prize in a research competition
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Attach other certificates might be useful (e.g. workshops, conferences, etc).
Transcript.
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Application form must be submitted during the SCORE
gathering.
The motivation letter must includes:
 The reason to choose him.
 Why he/she choose that specific topic.
 What his ideas to promote for the OMAN and SCOREOMSA.
Interview:
 To assess the language and communication skills abilities
of the students.
 Assessed by:
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Will score for maximally= 20 points.
The assessment criteria will be decided by the out-going
subcommittee and the language center.
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Tutor from language center.
NORE or LORE or the head of out-going sub-committee.
Number of research (each = 5)
1.
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The number of research the student was actively involved in
accompanied with a recommendation letter from the
supervisor.
Type of research V.S field experience.
2.
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The type of the research that is applied for is ___________
to the research the student did.
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
f.
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Identical/ similar aspect =
Similar type (lab work or data based) =
Related aspect =
Different departments (related topic) =
Same department but different aspect =
Not related at all =
5
5
4
3
2
0
If the student participated in a conference by that research
and applied to a similar topic (a, b or c) then he/she going to
get (3 bonus points)
3. Publication of the research:
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Where the research is published:
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5
3
1
0
Which type:
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International journal / website =
Local journal =
In the college only (department) =
None =
Article =
Poster/ oral presentation =
Won prizes or good criticism =
5
3
5
4. Motivation letter:
Evaluated through the out-going sub-committee
 Ranges from (1 up to 5)
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5. Attending related workshops or activities:
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Must be proved by a certificate.
Each gives = 3 points.
If the student conducted a workshop and applied for a
research in related topic, then he/she going to get (3 bonus
points)
6. Attending conferences:
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Won a prize related to a research or a workshop=
Participate by a research =
Participated by a related workshop =
8
5
3
7. SCORE/RCC:
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Being a member of SCORE/RCC gives you = 3 points.
8. SQU-MSG + OMSA + Pre activity:
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Being a member gives you = 3 points.
9. Year & transcript:
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Year = only graduated students have the privilege on
other year students.
Transcript = only will be used if the points went for a
tie.
10. Interview:
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the points will ranges (0  20)
 Facilitated
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by Saif Al Ghaffri
Keep the previous criteria or change it
Advantages & Disadvantages of each point
Write a whole report and forward it to NORESQUMSG.
 Contract
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list:
The countries >>>
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Italy
Turkey
Germany
Egypt
Lebonon
 How
to promote for the contracts?
 b. When to start to take the applications and
when the dead line will be?
 How
to promote for it?
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