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Friday 8 September 2017

Workshop @ KSHEMA

The Department of Community Medicine organized a Workshop, "Research Methodology & SPSS Workshop" from 22-08-2017 to 24-08-2017 at K.S Hegde Medical Academy.The session began at 9:30 am with the introduction of the facilitators for the workshop which was given by Dr. Rashmi Kundapur.

The inaugural function was held at 11:00 am. Dr. Satheesh Kumar Bhandary, Dean, KSHEMA, Dr. U. S. Krishna Nayak, Dean, AB Shetty Memorial Institute of dental sciences, Dr. R P Pai, senior Professor & director, ALNR Medical College, Koppa,Dr. Sanjeev Badiger, Dr. Harsha Halahalli Dr. Rathika Shenoy, Dr. Rashmi Kundapur, Dr. Ankeeta were the dignitaries present for the inaugural function.

The sessions conducted on day one were on review and literature,demonstration on using Zotero software and citation capture by Dr. Harsha Halahalli. Basics of Epidemiology by Dr.Rashmi Kundapur,Observational study designs by Dr. Rathika Shenoy, experimental study designs by Dr. Ankeeta & basics of statistics by Dr. Rashmi Kundapur. The next day sessions commenced at 9AM by review of the previous day’s session & Presentation of journal review and short lecture sessions on bias, validity, randomization, blinding and group activities which was facilitated by Dr. Rashmi, Dr. Harsha Halahalli, Dr. Rahul, and postgraduate Dr. Sharon Baisil. Dr. Sanjeev Badiger and Dr. Ankeeta Menona Jacob coordinated the session on qualitative research methodology with demonstration of mock focus group discussion.

There were sessions also on advanced statistics by Dr. Rashmi Kundapur along with short lectures on basic statistics, data types, descriptive and inferential statistics, sampling, sample size determination and survival analysis. Day three sessions included review of assignments and presentation of journal reviews followed by the hands-on SPSS training sessions by Dr. Sanal which included sessions on data entry, coding and recording of variables, computation and sorting, importing and exporting and interpretation of descriptive statistics.

The participants were also trained to create histogram, line diagram, box plots and error bars using SPSS.hands on demonstration on normality of data, independent t test, paired t test, ANOVA and post hoc tests, Computation of non-parametric tests like Mann Whitney U test, Wilcoxon sign rank test, Kruskal Wallis test were also demonstrated were conducted Valedictory function was conducted at 3:30pm by Dr. Satheesh Kumar Bhandary, Dean of KSHEMA distributed the certificates to all the participants. Particpants appreciated the overall conduct & content of the function and the valedictory function ended at 4pm after national anthem.



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