Thanks

[Guest guest]

Dear Madam

I would like to thank you for your valuable inputs towards understanding of clinical research. This information really helped us a lot for greater understanding of the concept and to ensure its applicability in real situation.On the behalf of NetRum members and all participants i extend thank for giving your precious time and congratulations for the successful completion of important segment of this e-workshop.

Thanks and Regards

Tarun Wadhwa

Research Scholar

Department of Pharmacology

J N Medical College, Nehrunagar,

Belgaum- 590010

Karnataka

Ph: 09844564634

From: smita sontakke <smitaavanti@...>Subject: Conclusionnetrum Date: Sunday, 10 January, 2010, 9:45 PM

Friends, Its time to conclude this discussion. Many of the other ethical issues that need to be considered while writing a clinical trial protocol such as trial design, subject recruitment criteria, randomization, blinding, use of a placebo, reporting adverse events, assessing risks and benefits, research in vulnerable groups have not been covered in details in this discussion as these issues have already been discussed or are going to be discussed in the forthcoming segments of this workshop.

Tarun has answered all the questions in the exercise correctly, so I dont need to give the answers again. Well done Tarun. Experimentation on human beings is subject to ethical standards that promote respect for all and protect their health and rights. With the rapidly progressing world of biomedical research, there are newer challenges to ethical standards; as a result the ethical guidelines are frequently revised. In order that every research on human subject is planned with a view to cause maximum benefit to mankind while causing least damage to the research subject, it is essential that an appropriately constituted ethics committee approve all the research protocols and an ideal protocol should have all ethical issues properly specified. We live in an era of ‘publish or perish’. Young researchers often succumb to the pressure for academic success and promotion and the institutional demands to secure research grants. An ethical researcher must rise above these selfish motives. A research study should advance scientific knowledge, lead to improvements in health and should have social, scientific and clinical value. The very first step in this direction is writing a proper study protocol. I express my sincere thanks to Dr. Thawani sir for giving me the opportunity to moderate two segments of this workshop.

Hope these discussions would be of some help to you all. Thank you everybody! Warm Regards, Dr. Smita Sontakke

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