NIeCer 101: Health Research Fundamentals
An e-Certificate course
Any current or potential health researchers including students, clinical/ public health/ laboratory researchers, physicians,research associates, allied health professionals, scientists, statisticians, ethics committee members and project managers, and freshly recruited Scientists B/C/D of ICMR network of institutes including Headquarters
Undergraduate Medical/Dental/AYUSH students, graduate in any other discipline
20 hours in 8 weeks
Upon course completion at designated centres | Exam fee : Rs 1000
Walk you through the systematic process of conceptualising, designing, planning, proposing, conducting and reporting a health research study. Get onboard to a stimulating journey of demystifying health research fundamentals!
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Health Research Fundamentals Book Is Now Available for Online Purchase
ICMR - National Institute of Epidemiology is offering online programmes on conduct of human bio-medical research. The programme will be offered as NIE-ICMR e-Certificate – NIeCer - Courses. The first in this series, NIeCer 101:Health Research Fundamentals, is a basic level course in health research methods. It will explain the fundamental concepts in epidemiology and bio-statistics related to research methods. This course will provide an overview of steps and principles for designing bio-medical and health research studies among human participants. We expect this course to be useful for individuals interested in pursuing health research in the roles of study investigators, clinical/public health researchers (physicians, counselors, research associates, social scientists, nurses, pharmacists, technicians, data and quality managers etc.), scientists, ethics committee members and project managers.
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All the instructors are faculty members for the two-year Master of Public Health [MPH] programme at the ICMR School of Public Health of the NIE, Chennai, India. The School is offering MSc (Biostatistics) from this July. Besides the Master's level programmes, the faculty members have been conducting PG diploma and various short-term training programmes in public health/epidemiology and biostatistics. Besides teaching, the faculty members have been conducting epidemiological/public health research.
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