The 50thTen-Day International Teaching Seminar on Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology and Prevention held in Goa, India from June 17 to June 29 2018. CRENC was represented at this prestigious 10 days teaching seminar by Dr. Sih Colette.
Dr. Sih is a fourth year resident in Internal Medicine at the Baptist Institute of Health Sciences with special interest in Cardiology and research. She is a fellow of the Clinical Research Education, Networking and Consultancy (CRENC) and now a fellow of the 50th cohort of the 10 day teaching seminar on Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology and Prevention organized by the International Society for Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology and Prevention (ISCEP). She shares her experience below.
“Some key concepts I learnt during this seminar which will forever change how I view and practice medicine and research include:
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Going back to the roots with the life course approach in epidemiology. It studies the biological, behavioural and social pathways that operate across the life course and influence the development of chronic diseases.
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Reimagining and supporting individuals and families to care for and prevent chronic diseases through the 5C approach: Collaborative, Coordinated, Continuing, Community-based and Compassionate care.
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In the words of Professor Doug Altman, 1948 – 2018 “We need less research, better research, and research done for the right reasons”.
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Collaborative research and research leadership which includes within disciplinary research, transdisciplinary research, interdisciplinary research and multidisciplinary research
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Implementation research and policy translation which is a permanent remindal that good quality research and high impact publication is not the end of the road. Research findings should be widely promoted into routine healthcare (clinical and policy contexts).
This seminar offered a unique opportunity to meet scholars dedicated to cardiovascular disease epidemiology and prevention and create a vast network of professional contacts all over the world. We studied and worked with the most of the distinguished faculty which included Professors Shrikant Bangdiwala, David Calvin Goff, George Howard, Kay-Tee Khaw, Vikram Patel, Neil Poulter, Dorairaj Prabhakaran, Poornima Prabhakaran, Nikhil Tandon, Ed Davis, George Mensah, K. Srinath Reddy and Denis Xavier. It was a memorable experience I would definitely recommend to other CRENC fellows“
