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GMJ. 2014;3(1):59-62 www.gmj.ir Received: 23 Nov 2013 Revised: 02 Dec 2013 Accepted: 06 Dec 2013 A Report of the 13th Annual Research Congress of Iran’s Medical Sciences Students Afshin Khani1, Farid Alinezhad1, Hamid Mahdizadeh1 , Mohammad Reza Banihosseini1, Fatemeh Izadpanah1, Amin Zarghami1, Soraya Khafri2 1Student Research Committee, Babol University of Medical Sciences, Babol, Iran. 2Department of social medicine, Babol University of Medical Sciences, Babol, Iran. Dear Editor cle must be approved by corresponding author or deputy of research of that university. very year Iranian students of medical sci- Altogether, 2065 abstracts were submitted Eences share the results of their research from 59 universities of Islamic republic of projects in the Annual Research Congress Iran in the congress’s website (Figure-1). The of Iranian Medical Sciences Students (AR- number of submitted abstracts to this year’s CIMSS) [1,2]. This year, the 13th congress congress was the second highest prevalence was held by the student research committee of submissions in all previous twelve con- (SRC) of Babol University of medical scienc- gresses (Figure-2). The mandatory ethical es in Babolsar town from October 9th to 12th commitment form was the likely cause of of 2012. lower submission rate compared to previous The major research fields of this year’s con- congresses. gress were basic sciences, clinical sciences, All abstracts were screened by the scientific dentistry, pharmacy, paramedical sciences, team for potential structural errors and those nursing, midwifery, physiotherapy and re- with significant errors were excluded from the habilitation, healthcare and nutrition, health review process. After excluding 264 abstracts, system researches (HSR), medical education the name of authors, universities, research researches, Islamic medicine, traditional and centers, cities, and hospitals were removed alternative medicine, ethics in medical re- from the body of the abstracts in order to searches and modern technologies. There was provide a blind reviewing process and avoid also a special section about innovations, in- any further bias. One thousand and eighty ventions and interdisciplinary researches. abstracts were sent for reviewing process to In this congress, the scientific team mainly 79 student reviewers. All reviewers were se- aimed to improve the quality of accepted ab- lected according to curriculum vitae’s score, stracts by training the reviewers and enhanc- qualification exam’s score and the proportion ing the reviewing process. On the other hand, devoted to each particular section. Each ab- for the first time in student-held congresses stract were evaluated by three independent we implemented ethical considerations in sub- reviewers and based on the mean given scores mission steps according to which no abstract of abstracts, 850 abstracts were selected and would have permitted to enter the reviewing sent for evaluation of faculty members. process without completing the ethical com- Eventually, 505 abstracts were accepted for mitment form in which the content of the arti- presentation (362 poster presentation, Correspondence to: GMJ Hamid Mahdizadeh, Students’ Research Committee ©2013 Galen Medical Journal (SRC), Babol University of Medical Sciences, Ganja- Fax: +98 731 2227091 frouz St, Babol, IR Iran PO Box 7461686688 Telephone Number: (+98) 9124595861 Email:[email protected] Email Address :[email protected] www.gmj.ir Accepted abstracts GMJ. 2014;3(1):59-62 50 45 45 40 35 33 31 30 27 25 23 21 21 20 19 Annual Research Congress of Iran’s Medical Sciences Students Annual Research Congress of Iran’s th 17 17 Accepted abstracts 16 13 15 15 15 15 14 14 14 12 10 10 10 9 9 8 7 6 6 5 5 <5 0 Other Universities Tarbiat Modarres University Hakim Sabzevari University Fasa University of Medical Sciences Arak University of Medical Sciences Babol University of Medical Sciences Shiraz University of Medical SciencesTabriz University of Medical Sciences Isfahan University of Medical Sciences Tehran UniversityGuilan of Medical University Sciences of Medical Sciences Kerman University of Medical Sciences Shahed University of Medical SciencesJahrom University of Medical Sciences Kashan University of Medical Sciences Birjand University of Medical Sciences Zahedan UniversityGolestan of Medical University Sciences of Medical Sciences Hamedan UniversityMashhad of Medical University Sciences of Medical Sciences Rafsanjan University of Medical Sciences Gonabad University of Medical Sciences Shahrekord University of Medical Sciences Kordestan University of Medical Sciences Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences Shahid BeheshtiShahid University Sadoughi of Medical University Sciences of Medical Sciences Islamic Azad University Tehran Medical Branch Figure 1. Frequency abstracts were submitted from 59 universities of Islamic republic of Iran in the congress’s website et al. Khani A, 60 13th Annual Research Congress of Iran’s Medical Sciences Students Khani A, et al. 3000 2471 2500 2089 2065 2000 1695 1730 1600 1500 1259 1000 834 688 Submitted 600 600 480 505 470 396 400 392 Accepted 500 380 129 200 133 161 176 127 33 52 0 8th (Shiraz) 10th (Iran) 1st (Semnan) 3rd (Tehran) 13th (Babol) 2nd (Golestan) 4th (Hamadan) 5th (Mashhad) 12th (Isfahan) 6th (Mazandaran) 11th (Hormozgan) 7th (Shahid Beheshti) 9th (Mashhad&Hamadan) Figure 2. Prevalence of Submissions in All Previous Annual Research Congress of Iran’s Medical Sciences Students 500 465 450 400 350 300 300 240 250 200 152 128 133 150 115 112 111 83 88 75 100 66 56 43 38 43 40 SubmiPed 29 23 33 30 28 23 21 50 20 12 12 16 8 8 5 9 3 1 1 Accepted 0 Nursing Den:stery Midwifery Pharmacy Basic Sciences Paramedicine Physiotherapy Clinical sciences Research in Ethics Modern technology Healthcare & nutri:on Health system research Innova:ons & inven:ons medical educa:on research Interdiciplinary researches Tradi:onal Islamic and alterna:ve medicine & medicine Quranic research Development of Iranian&Islamic culture in Figure 3. Frequency of the Submitted and Accepted Abstracts in 13th Annual Research Congress of Iran’s Medical Sciences Students 101 oral presentations and 42 poster-talk pre- ing too many congresses” that got much atten- sentation). The submitted and accepted ab- tion by the participants. Another innovation stracts in each discipline were indicated in in this congress was keynote lecture. It was figure-3. The accepted abstracts were sched- a short presentation performed by specialists uled to present in 14 oral panels, 4 poster-talk in the outset of each panels regarding the new panels and 3 poster panels. Furthermore, 15 approaches and accomplishments in that field workshops were held during the congress and presented by the pioneers of that specific days for both student and faculty members’ field from the host university. participants. Altogether, this congress was a great success Besides all the educational and research pro- for the staff and executive team in the first grams, for the first time in the history of stu- place and then for all the researchers and par- dent congresses, there was a meeting held by ticipants. It was enjoyable for all the guests several active researchers in student research and participants to have an annual follow up fields on the topic of “pathophysiology of stu- of other researchers in different medical fields. dent congresses and the requirement for hav- GMJ. 2014;3(1):59-62 61 www.gmj.ir Khani A, et al. 13th Annual Research Congress of Iran’s Medical Sciences Students Acknowledgment Financial Disclosure We would like to appreciate all the people All costs of this congress were paid from the who participated in this congress, especially deputy of research and technology of ministry all the members of Babol Students research of health. There was no financial gain for au- committee who without their cooperation this thors of this report. project would not be accomplished. We also thank deputy of research and technology of ministry of health for the financial support of the ARCIMSS 13th. References 1. Hosseini SY. 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