I. Short term research Work for undergraduate students
Objective:
To know and develop the research skills in undergraduate level to imporve confidence in their future research field.
Context:
Research work is to find the answer or to solve the problem which threaten the society and the life of human being. In India the clinical courses like Medical and dental sciences have this research work only from their Post graduate studies. But the students should know the facts and background of research in their BDS level itself. This Short term research program was designed to improve their research and experimental skills and to apply their subject knowledge in various research fields to find the solution to solve the problems.
Practice:
BDS internship students were divided into various group with one Guide and one Co-Guide for their Short term research work. The team should get approval from Institutional Review Board (IRB)to proceed their Short term studies. Progress of each project should be submitted to the research advisory board which is headed by The Pricipal. Finally each team should publish or submit their Short term research in reputed DCI approved journals before their completion of BDS Internship.
Evidence of Success:
The team learnt the basics of developing research questions, hypothesis and designing of experiments.
The students also learnt new experimental techniques and scientific writing skills.
The onging research work number increased after this Program.
The students also learnt new experimental techniques and scientific writing skills.
The onging research work number increased after this Program.
Problems encountered and resources required:
Students faced some financial and time delay problems during their research work.