Courses offered under this banner include Health Research Fundamentals, Basic Course in Biomedical Research (a National Medical Commission mandated course), Prescribing Skills Course for Indian Medical Graduates and others. So far, more than three lakh participants have taken our courses and found them extremely useful. Feedback survey from our participants show that, in general, they are very satisfied with these courses and find them enriching and captivating.
ICMR-NIE’s foray into the world of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) has been widely successful and the Online Courses Division is planning to introduce more courses in the coming months to pay heed to the wide ranging requests for courses in health research. Courses on Outbreak Investigation, Epidemiology for Laboratory Personnel, Causal Inference and Sample Size Calculation are currently in the pipeline.