Title: Fundamentals of Clinical Research

Chair: Prof. Ashraf Nabhan

• Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Ain Shams University
• Co-chair of the HRP Alliance for Strengthening Research Capacity, WHO
• Editor of Cochrane Pregnancy and Childbirth

Co-Chair: Dr. Marwah Anas El Wegoud

• Deputy Director of the Egyptian Center for Evidence Based Medicine
• Author and Referee at Cochrane Oral Health Group, Cochrane Pregnancy and Childbirth and Cochrane Heart.

Educational aim

The main educational aim of these programs is to offer a challenging, flexible scheme of study invigorated by research, which advances clinicians’ ability to develop academic and practical insights into the use of clinical trials. Clinicians will be encouraged to develop a range of transferable and subject specific expertise using their initiative and thinking out problems themselves. Specifically, the programs aim to:

Day 1  The Basics

• Conceiving the Research Question and Developing the Study Plan
• Choosing the Study Subjects: Specification, Sampling, and Recruitment
• Planning the Measurements: Precision, Accuracy, and Validity
• Hypotheses and Underlying Principles of Sample Size
• Estimating Sample Size and Power: Applications and Examples

Day 2  The Designs

• A Practical approach to ethical issues
• Designing Observational Studies
• Enhancing Causal Inference in Observational Studies
• Designing a Randomized Blinded Trial
• Alternative Trial Designs