Introduction and the History of the Unit:

Objectives: 

• Providing facilities needed for doing clinical researches

• Empowering the faculty members and clinical students

• Improving the quality and quantity of research papers

• Approval of research policy in the hospital in line with research policies at university

• Increasing awareness and changing attitudes and performance of researchers in the area of clinical problems

• Providing human resources and facilities which are needed by Clinical Research and Development Unit

• Supervising research activities to be done in the best way

• Making efforts to merge research activities in the fields of education and treatment

• Consulting and helping students to write research proposals

• providing statistical consulting to assistants and students for their dissertation

• Helping students to convert their dissertation to research papers

• Holding workshops and educational-research seminars

• Holding workshops to teach research methodology, writing papers, searching for sources, …

• Holding workshops to teach research software tools and electronic search systems

Consulting Services and List of Consultants in this Unit: 

• Statistic consulting and data analysis (filtering data and analyzing data)

• Providing epidemiology and research methodology consulting (searching for sources, codification of research proposals, consulting in implementation of the study and writing report)

• Consulting students about ethical issues in medical researches

• Helping students to edit their scientific papers and reports written in English and Persian

• Helping students to publish their research results (writing paper, submitting papers, tracking papers from acceptance to publication)

Unit Principal:

• Dr. Nahid Azdaki,Cardiologist, faculty member of Birjand University of Medical Sciences

 Academic staff:

• Maryam Soltani, with a master's degree in Epidemiology

• Nasrin Amirabadizadeh, with a master's degree in Health Education and Promotion

Address: Clinical Research and Development Unit, Razi Hospital, Qaffari Blvd. Birjand, Iran

Tel: +98-56-31626461-6463