RESEARCH METHODOLOGY IN
HEALTH SCIENCES
“A
Burning Desire Is The Starting Point Of All Accomplishment”. The Kerala medical
services corporation limited (KMSCL) was established with a responsibility of
ensuring access to medicines and to establish scientific and cost effective
methods and procedures in activities like procurement ,storage,distribution,and
usage of medicines in the state of Kerala. The KMSCL with the aim to promote
and conduct research projects related to medicines and their usages, and also
to promoting and encouraging research activities among PG, researchers and
teachers introduced KMSCL INSTITUTE FOR DRUG STUDIES (KIDS).
ON 17TH JUNE, 2013 KIDS
organized a one day seminar on the topic “RESEARCH METHODOLOGY IN HEALTH
SCIENCES” at government medical college, Thiruvananthapuram, with an aim of
making the empanelled research fellows and research associates of KIDS familiar
with certain aspects of research in health care. The whole programme was
divided into 8 sessions along with a parallel session. We were so blessed to
attend such an enlightening seminar which was blessed by the presence of very
intellectuals and respected scientists and professors.
The pre –inauguration session had Dr.C.P
SHARMA, Head, Biomedical technology division, Sree Chithra Thirunal Institute
for Medical Sciences and Technology as the speaker on the topic “PREPARATION OF
PROJECTS AND PROTOCOLS FOR FUNDED PROJECTS”. He said that projects and
protocols are a result of group spirit and he pointed out that ”SEA WAVES
APPEAR INDEPENDENT, BUT ARE INTEGRATED TOGETHER “which means we all appear
independent but are interdependent on one another.
The pre inauguration session was
followed by the most important part of the seminar “INAUGRAL FUNCTION” .The
inaugural function was started with prayer song . It was followed by
lamp-lightening by Sree K.M. CHANDRASHEKAR, Vice Chairman, Kerala State
Planning Board ,followed by welcome speech by DIRECTOR of KIDS Dr.K.G RAVIKUMAR and presidential
address by Managing Director KMSCL Shri R.KAMALAHAR IFS.
On this very auspicious occasion, Mr.HARI
PRASAD, Drug Controller of Kerala handed over the study report on “FAILURE OF
SSI UNITS IN KERALA TO BECOME EFFECTIVE SUPPLIERS OF MEDICINES TO KMSCL” to respected Sri R.KAMALAAHAR IFS, Managing
Director, KMSCL.
The programme continued with the key
note address from Prof V.N RAJASEKHARAN PILLAI, Ex-officio Principal Secretary
of the Department of Science and Technology, Government of Kerala, and we were
so lucky to have Dr.B ASHOK IAS, who was the guest of honor of the function.
Then came the felicitatory speeches administered by Dr.IPE VARGHEESE, Registar,
KUHS, DR.A.V. GEORGE, Sree Chithra Thirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and
Technology and MR.B. RAJAN, President, Kerala State Pharmacy Council. The
inaugural function then came to an end with the vote of thank by MS.PRIYA NAIR,
Deputy Manager, Community pharmacy services, KMSCL.
The most blessed session that we had was the
second session handled by DR.TINY NAIR, Head of the department of Cardiology,
PRS hospital, Thiruvanathapuram about “INTERPRETING CLINICAL TRIALS”. He just
took us to the world of clinical trials
where he mentioned about different phases of the clinical trials, use of
evidence based medicines.
Next we moved on to two extra ordinary
lecturers in third session. We heard a class about the “CLINICAL RESEARCH AND
METABOLIC SYNDROME “by respected DR.V .JAYPAL, Cardiologist, LORDS hospital
Thiruvanathapuram, where he explained about the risk factors, diagnosis and
management of metabolic syndromes and clinical researches associated with it.
This class was succeeded by a class
administered by DR. DINESH ROY .D, CEO, Genetika-Center for Advanced Genetic
Studies, Trivandrum who introduced us to various chromosome abnormalities,
their prenatal diagnosis through his topic “APPLICATION OF CYTOGENETIC
TECHNIQUES IN HEALTH CARE RESEARCH STUDIES”.
In the afternoon (5th
session) we were gifted to have DR.S. RAJASHEKARAN, Senior project Consultant
and Former Director Grade Scientist JNTBGRI, Palode, Trivandrum who informed us
about the health system in Kerala. He also pointed out that in this century of
life and health sciences multidisciplinary integrated researches will
contribute much in health care system in states where the population is not
able on one hand to realize aspiration and on the other hand to satisfy the
needs of the population, through his topic “IMPORTANCE OF MULTIDISIPLINARY
INTEGRATED RESEARCH IN HEALTH CARE”
The sixth session was taken by DR.ESWARA
SARMA on “Scope of Collaborative Research”, where he mentioned that innovation
in the field of health, from the side of new generation was trivial in a place
like Kerala where ayurveda is
practiced in its purest form.
From the seventh session we came to know about
an organization CARE-KERALA - a mile stone for our future health care system,
is a venture of ayurvedic cluster. It was DR.JOY VARGHESE, Technical Director,
Care Keralam, Ernakulam, who introduced the role of Care Keralam in promoting
research in health management. The venture promotes home stay for patients with
chronic disease along with treatment.
The
seventh session ended with a very effective session about life threatening
disease AIDS by MR.T.A MAJEED, on his topic “RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LEUKAEMIA AND
AIDS”.
Being PHARM-D students we were looking
forward for the upcoming session where
PHARM-D students were separated from the
other audience .It was under the leadership of
MR.B.RAJAN, President, Kerala State
Pharmacy Council and DR.K.G. RAVIKUMAR, Director, KIDS, that an open
discussion on the topic “GUIDELINES FOR CONDUCTANCE OF PHARM-D COURSES IN
KERALA AND ACCREDITATION OF HOSPITAL PHARMACIES” was conducted .They opened to
us a world of scopes, duties, future and responsibilities of Pharm-D through this session. At the same
time a parallel session under the leadership of
MR.PRADEEP, Assistant, Drugs Controller, Ernakulam, a seminar was
conducted on topic “KIDS STUDY REPORT ON FAILURE OF SSI UNITS IN KERALA TO
BECOM E EFFECTIVE SUPPLIERS OF MEDICINES TO KMSCL” to the other audience. The
programme was concluded by certificate distribution by SHRI KAMALAHAR IFS,
Managing Director, KMSCL
It was an unforgettable learning experience
altogether and lastly to mention we were thankful to all the co-coordinators of
the function .We also thank Malayalam news channel, MANORAMA NEWS, who prepared
a news clip about the programme that made aware many people about the course
,it’s future and various other aspects.
Retty
Second
year Pharm.D
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