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by Professor Omar Hasan Kasule Sr MB ChB
(MUK), MPH (Harvard), DrPH (Harvard) Chairman of IRB, King Fahad Medical City
1.0 CHANGE THE PROFILE OF RESEARCH TO
HAVE MORE CLINICAL STUDIES
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2011
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2012
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2013 (till May)
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Exempt
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Expedited
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Full Review
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2.0 ONE STOP RESEARCH CENTER IN EACH
HOSPITAL/CENTER
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Full-time research administrator/assistant/coordinator physically
accessible all the time
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Completing, submitting, and following up forms/applications
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Records of research activities and financial reports
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Literature search and looking up other info needed by the researchers
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Submission of reports and manuscripts
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Recruiting and follow up of research assistants
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Recruiting research subjects
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Organising departmental research events: journal clubs, presentation of
ongoing or completed research
3.0 GENERATION OF RESEARCH IDEAS:
KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE NEWSLETTER
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Electronic newsletter with summaries of the most uptodate frontline
research from high impact factor journals available at the KFMC digital library
covering all disciplines
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KFMC contributor scans a journal every month promoted by the editor and
selects 1-2 items that contain innovative, new, and provocative research
reports
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Reports are summarized in less than 100 words long enough to stimulate
the interested and short enough not to bore the uninterested
4.0 OTHER IDEAS
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Research mentors
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De-bureaucratise research approvals and research funding for example
small grants <10K can be decided by the Director of the research center
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Purchase of research supplies to be made faster hours and not weeks
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A special financial unit within the Finance Dept to handle payments in
an expeditious way