Fellowship

TRUST Fellowship Program

TRUST fellowship program is designed to provide researchers in biology with the tools necessary to: comprehensively review the literature, organize and design their research projects and to join a research team.

What will I learn?

  • Participate in each step of how to build a strong and sound research project, starting from picking up your research idea and formulating the research question, protocol design and ending by the manuscript being published.

  • Design and conduct a valid statistical analysis plan

  • Understand the different study designs and which is most appropriate to answer your research question

  • Critically appraise different study designs

Program: The fellowship program runs over 4 semesters.

Target audience: Application is open to undergraduates and postgraduates in biological and biology-oriented disciplines; such as medicine, pharmacy, dentistry, physiotherapy, veterinary medicine, psychology and biotechnology. Applicants are expected to have critical thinking, paying full attention to details, with good ability for planning and scheduling and perfect communications skills.

On each workshop, the instructor will send an assignment. Assignments should be answered in a maximum of 10 days period. Registrants should expect to receive coordinators’ notes and comments within (n= number of workshop attendees) working days.

A google classroom will be created to send the materials, assignments and final exam. All assignments will have to answered and handed in the classroom to organize sending the notes and comments for each registrant.

Privacy note: All application content will remain strictly confidential and will be used for internal review and communication purposes only. We will never share your information with a third party.

Certification: Participants will receive certificates if they answered the assignments and scored >60% on final test carried out by the end of each semester.

Prerequisites:

Semester 1: None

Semesters 2-4: being certified for the previous level or getting > 80% in one of its randomly chosen passing tests.

Semester 1 (5 sessions):

  1. Research design (2 sessions)

  2. Searching

  3. Sample size calculation

  4. Protocol

Semester 2 (7 sessions):

  1. Essentials, Chi-square, unpaired t-test

  2. ANOVA, correlation & regression

  3. Observational outcomes and diagnostic accuracy (2 sessions)

  4. Statistical analysis practice

  5. Observational studies design (2 sessions)

 

Semester 3 (6 sessions):

  1. Paired design

  2. Non parametric

  3. Time to event analysis

  4. Multivariate analysis

  5. Meta-analysis

  6. Statistical analysis practice

  7. Clinical trials design (2 sessions)

Semester 4: Research Project

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    Testimonials

    I’ve attended several courses by Prof Dr Ahmed Hassouna and Prof. Aliaa Rehan and Dr Gumaa as sample size estimation and power study analysis, Observational studies analysis and NIF studies, systematic review & meta-analysis.

    I’ve enjoyed these courses a lot as well as the professional examples and clinical cases we are exposed to, as well as continuous support after courses end

    Nadia Hamdy

    Prof of Biochemistry and the Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Dept., Faculty of Pharmacy, Ain Shams University

    صراحه انتوا كمنظومة محترمة جدااااا من الناحية العلمية وخصوصا دكتورنا احمد حسونة اللي بجد مش بس بيفهمك يعني ايه إحصاء لا ده كمان بيحببك فيها

    Mohamed Mousa

    Teaching assistant, Faculty of Physical Therapy, Cairo University

    I would like to express my intense pleasure being able to attend a number of workshops under your TRUST umbrella. Professor Hassouna is peculiar among the field. He has a very interesting way of clarifying the scene behind hypothesis testing and the different statistical methods making it quite interesting and comprehensive as well. Understanding the logic behind the test principles and equations makes the ideas unforgettable. He is really talented. 

    The sessions are open to constructive discussions most of the time as Prof. Hassouna is always encouraging questions. The material is well prepared with a simple explanation that is always to the point.

    Hekmat El Magdoub

    Associate Professor, Faculty of pharmacy, MIU

    The Systematic review and Meta-analysis course was a very useful course with friendly people and nice place, thank you for your efforts.

    Mark Manolly

    Pharmacist

    I took systemic review and meta-analysis course. It was very helpful with our graduation project. It taught us basics and differences between different types of reviews. Also, the part of meta-analysis was interesting. It was a great experience

    Lougine Ahmed

    Pharmacist

    I really appreciate the effort of TRUST and the well based scientific knowledge and background of the professors who are in charge of the teaching of the courses I had attended. I would like to thank everyone either in organization or teaching. TRUST is a very organized team. Thank you very much and may Allah rewards you. Especial thanks to Dr. Hassouna, Dr. Aliaa and Dr. Gumaa. 

    Olfat Ibrahim

    Assistant Professor, Faculty of Physical Therapy, Cairo University

    I am very satisfied with the content of courses I attended and I have enjoyed them.
    lecturers’ representation is very good and detailed. Value for price of the courses. Commitment to lecture dates. Tasks and exams test the level of understanding the content well. Access to files and presentations of the content. Easy way to get in contact with the lecturers if you have any inquiry.

    Ahmed Ayman Elmelegy

    Medical Intern, Menoufia University

    I have attended 2 courses (Statistics for clinicians S4C & Systematic review and meta-analysis). The two courses were informative and well designed. Dr. Ahmed Hassouna and Dr. Gumaa were incredibly knowledgeable and articulate. Dr. Hassouna is the best statistics instructor I have ever had. I like how he breaks down things and he covers the ways to think about statistics far beyond any course I have taken.

    The Systematic review and meta-analysis course, in particular, is the best course I’ve ever attended for learning how to write systematic reviews. Dr. Aliaa and Dr. Gumaa successfully demonstrated how to begin a systematic review from concept to publication.

    I am now a fellow in the second semester of the Research Fellowship. It is the best start to understanding the whole process of clinical research and the knowledge you need. One of the instructors of the fellowship, Dr. Aliaa, did an excellent job of explaining and illustrating several topics, and she has the ability to keep you engaged throughout the course.

    Aya Ismail Abdelaziz

    Assistant Clinical Researcher, Medical Research Center, Faculty of pharmacy, Heliopolis University

    I am a medical information researcher at Veexia Pharmaceuticals. I attended the Systematic review and meta-analysis course which helped me to complete my systematic review for my graduation project and publish it. The concepts that I have learned in the course is fruitful and the quality and delivery of the material is excellent and I recommend this course to anyone who is thinking about writing a systematic review and meta-analysis. Finally, I would like to thank all the professors there, as the things, which they taught me helped me to get my new job and I am still using so much at the office.

    Anthony Benjamin

    Pharmacist

    “Completed first semester of TRUST Fellowship Program. The course tutors are excellent and professional, assignments were helpful, the tutors encouraged me to do my best and answered all my questions. I passed the final exam. Overall it was a great experience in research and statistics. I would definitely recommend it.”

    Sarah Mohamed Ali

    Physical Therapist

    I enjoyed the courses I have attended and learned a lot from them. The contents are very informative, very helpful, well organized and focused on practical situations. I don’t mind to repeat attending the same courses many times. I highly recommend every aspiring researcher to join TRUST Research Center courses.”

    Shimaa Abbas Hassan

    Specialist of Anesthesiology,Intensive Care,and Pain Management, Faculty of Medicine, Assiut University Hospitals

    كورسات ممتازة ومادة علمية مرتبة وإلقاء متميز

    Ahmed Yehia

    “Regarding the courses at TRUST center, it is very organized, professional and understandable. The whole staff is highly qualified and it was a pleasure for me to take statistics and research fellowship part one and part 2 with such a great team. I am a beginner at research and statistics study, it was hard for me to understand statistics at the beginning of the course but I am improving now due to efforts in the lectures from Dr Hassouna, Dr Aliaa and Dr Mohammed.”

    Eman Ali Ali

    Physical Therapist

    مركز تراست من افضل المراكز اللى اتعاملت معاها اولا من حيث سهوله الحجز وانضباط المواعيد والمعامله اللائقة من كل العاملين بالمكان بدايه من السكرتاريه قمه في الاحترام. انا كنت اخدت

    systematic review and meta-analysis

    .مع د .حسونه و د .علياء ريحان الحقيقه ممتازين جدا من حيث المحتوى ايلى بيقدموه ومن حيث العمل الجماعي اللى من خلالها كنا بنطبق اللى تعلمناه

    Hend Refaat

    Assistant Lecturer, Neurology Department, Faculty of Physical Therapy, Cairo University

    “The training experience with TRUST was valuable and very helpful for me. “Systematic review and Meta-analysis” course was recommended for the review of clinical evidence which is a part of my routine work.

    So, the highly qualified and specialized instructors and the staff in TRUST organization helps the higher benefit of the course being achieved.

    I looking forward to participating in other courses in the near future.”

    Soaad Abdulaleem Ali

    Pharmacist at Egyptian Drug Authority, Member of pharmaco-economic unit

    Thanks, Dr. Hassouna and Dr. Gumaa for the interesting learning experience in statistics for clinicians course. the content was competitive, clear, and interest. The time of course was enough. the theoretical section was good. The technical and practical part was very interesting, actual training with SPSS. The discussion was done for any missing parts.

    Shimmaa Mohamed

    Assistant lecturer, Faculty of Nursing

    “My experience with trust was great and very useful for me and for sure I would like to repeat it again”

    Myra Yasser Elsamny

    Physiotherapist

    “I really enjoyed attending and interacting with lecturers during your courses”

    Osama Rifaie

    Professor of cardiology, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt
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