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January 2011
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Medical students research day
The responsibility for teaching the students research methods and epidemiology rests with the Public Health and Primary Care Unit (Department of Paraclinical Sciences). Dr. George Legall, a senior Lecturer, currently coordinates the research activities, and this year he was assisted by Dr. Kameel Mungue and Dr. Abiodun Olukoga, both lecturers in the Unit. The research project, which begins in the second year of the medical programme is completed the following year. The high-point of the research activity is the Research Day which takes place in the third year of the medical students’ programme. Over the past 13 years, the students have presented papers, many of which have later been accepted for further presentation at international conferences and have also been published in peer-reviewed journals. On Research Day, the students present their research in groups.
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Students of the Faculty of Medical Sciences, UWI, St. Augustine are introduced to the World of Research in the second year of their five-year programme. After several weeks of classroom lectures, students are assigned research projects and, working in groups of 8-10, they collect and analyze data on a range of health issues.