Short Course in Clinical Research and Evidence-Based Medicine

I am Hailemaryam Alemu Astatk, MD, an Internal Medicine Specialist and Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Gondar, Ethiopia, where I am involved in clinical practice, medical education, and research. I chose to follow eSCREM because I strongly believe it provides an essential bridge between clinical medicine and clinical research methodology. One of the most memorable aspects of the program was its highly interactive and practical approach to teaching. The curriculum was exceptionally well designed, particularly in research methodology and protocol development, enabling me in a short time to better connect my clinical experience with high-quality research skills and evidence-based thinking.

I highly recommend eSCREM to healthcare professionals and researchers who wish to strengthen their research capacity while remaining grounded in clinical practice. I am sincerely grateful to the instructors and course coordinators at the Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp for their dedication and guidance throughout the course.

As a budding researcher looking to shape my research idea and present for my PhD application, the Short Course in Evidence-Based Medicine (SCREM) was one of the advanced courses I took during my MTM that was fulfilling. The eSCREM takes the students through aspects that should be understood before writing a proposal, such as clinical epidemiology, preparing literature, literature search and measures of disease frequency. This course requires that the students submit a research idea which will be worked on during the face-to-face session, where the students are required to defend the work. The teachers give pointers on where to improve proposals and enrich them for submission. And such is what I did during the course: prepare and defend the idea! After the course, I was ready to use this proposal in my application for my sandwich PhD, for which I was successfully selected, starting from the 2022-2023 academic year. The SCREM is the course for you if you want to gain experience in protocol writing, clinical decision making, and developing your research idea.