Research course

Medicine is both an art and a science. While clinical experience teaches you the art of medicine, research is the backbone of the science of medicine. Applicants trained abroad often do not have the opportunity, tools or guidance to learn how to appraise research articles or conduct a research project, let alone successfully publish or present original research. Demonstrated research experience is becoming increasingly critical in determining a successful match for IMGs and Caribbean applicants. US research experience with documented outcomes (publications, manuscripts) gives you a distinct advantage.
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This is where USMLEsarthi comes in!!

Our team is now offering you the exciting opportunity to do real research! You will get hands-on experience in the steps involved in conducting meaningful clinical research, with the opportunity to publish in PubMed, Scopus (& others) indexed journals & conferences.
Course overview
The USMLEsarthi research course comprises a core theory course (Principles of Research) followed by a practicum (Hands on research experience).

1. Principles of Research – Live, interactive lectures which are designed to walk you through the steps involved in conducting and publishing research.

2. Practicum - You will have the opportunity to work on a research project. This project could include an original research article (your own or ongoing with a USMLEsarthi panelist), case reports, review articles or meta-analysis. Our panelists will provide guidance and assistance during this process. This is done remotely. No physical presence in US is expected or required.
Course Duration and timeline
Principles of Research: 5 weeks
Practicum: About 12 weeks to prepare the draft and submission of manuscript/abstract (actual time depends on the effort you put in). This does not include the time various journals may take to accept and publish (3 months or more).
Course Prerequisites
No prior research experience is necessary.
Course fee
  • Principles of Research + Practicum: $725 (non Sarthi students), $675 (Sarthi students).
  • Payments made by credit/debit card will incur additional 3% fee. You can also by by check, if you have an account with any bank in the US. This will not incur the 3% additional fee. To pay by check send us an email contact@usmlesarthi.com and we can send details.
  • International wire transfer can be used (may incur higher transaction fee- please email us to confirm)
Course Curriculum
Principles of Research
This will include live interactive sessions with our Instructors. Student will learn about different types of research studies, different types of databases, hypothesis generation, designing research methodology, statistical analysis (hands on experience on sample database using SAS/SPSS software – just basic statistical tests), data interpretation and presentation. There will be a special session on ‘Research and Residency interviews’ in which we will guide you on the types of questions to expect on your research during the residency interviews.

The following topics will be covered
Topics
  • Types of publications and databases
  • Hypothesis generation and how to do literature review?
  • How to understand datasets?
  • How to design research methodology?
  • How to analyze data with different tools?
  • How to interpret data?
  • How to write an abstract?
  • How to write a manuscript using various tools?
  • How to publish in various journals and conferences?
  • How to create a poster?
  • How to present at conferences? 
  • Research related questions for residency interviews
Practicum
In this part of the course, you will get the opportunity to work on one research project with a USMLEsarthi researcher.
Publications as part of Practicum
This will yield either one conference abstract or one full research article depending on research topic (details of research topics in next section)
Our instructors are working on original research articles, abstract, meta-analysis articles, case reports and review articles. You will be able to work with one of them one of them depending on your interest, availability and mutual fit. This will be in a group and the researcher will determine group size.
In this case You will get co-authorship in one full article or one conference abstract.

If you want to work on your own topic, our team will assist you in writing and publishing and you will be the first author for the same.
Course Dates
Next batch starts Oct 2021
Class logistics
The Principles of Research classes will be live, interactive lectures held on the weekends. You can be based anywhere in the world. The classes are also recorded so you can always review the contents again.

For Practicum, the research faculty will form separate groups.
focus of June Research groups
We are starting our next batch of research course on June 6, 2021. This batch will have the opportunity to publish full research articles on the following topics
  • Original research articles on Cardiovascular diseases and risk factors, diabetes screening etc using CDC databases
  • Systematic review articles on COVID related topics.

Note: 
  • Full research publications can take around 6-8 months to get accepted and published in a Journal. We will try our best to at least submit the article before Sep 2021 (but there is no guarantee). This research will not be published before September 29th, 2021. Our goal remains to submit it before September 29th so that so that it can be included as "submitted" in the ERAS application. 
  • Residents, fellows and attendings will be also part of the abstracts depending on the topics and interests
Tools
We will be using SAS/SPSS and the projects will give students ample opportunity to learn these tools.
Please note before you enroll
This is an educational course designed to introduce the enrolled to fundamentals of clinical research, provide opportunity for working on research projects as part of a team. You should be prepared to discuss your learnings from the course and the research during the interviews.