Steps of research in Rawalpindi Medical College

HOW TO START A RESEARCH PROJECTAbdullah Bin Khurram

(President, RSRS)

Forming a Group

Group of 3 Can be more or less, but that has

implications Choose the leader/1st author Clarify beforehand the order of

authorship

Research Topic

Choose a research TopicOR Ask a good questionOR Come up with a good hypothesis

Literature Review

Google Scholar PubMed

Narrow your topic down to a Research Objective

•SpecificS•MeasurableM•AchievableA•ReproducibleR•Time BoundT

Make a Research Proposal

Go to rsrs-rmc.weebly.com Download the forms and fill them in Contact your coordinators for help filling

them in Send the completed proposal and

application form to researchunitrmc@gmail.com

Make the corrections Submit 8 copies when approved

Ethical approval

You may be asked to present in an IRF meeting

Research Proposal presentation will be on PowerPoint and will include the same slides as are the headings in the Research Proposal.

After ethical approval, you can initiate Data Collection

Data Collection and Analysis

Use Data collection tools and Techniques Use SPSS or Stata or the likes of it for

data analysis

Research Paper

Write your research paper Reference every fact and don’t present

random guesses as facts Go to JRMC website for “Instructions for

authors” No plagiarism

Components of a Paper

Title and authors Abstract Introduction Materials and Methods Results Discussion Conclusion Acknowledgments References

Submitting the Paper

Send the written paper to researchunitrmc@gmail.com

After corrections, print the hard copies and write on a CD and send it to Dr. Faiza again. (Checkers are Dr. Khurram and Dr. Nadeem

Ikram) Repeat the process ‘n’ number of times. Wait for it to be published

CONGRATULATIONSYou have a Research Paper