Methodology
Research Methodology
Framing an answerable question, choosing a study design, sampling, and writing a protocol that survives ethical review.
Twice a year
A student-led research platform under the Undergraduate Research & Development Wing of the Amcolians Alumni Association.
Research is no longer optional in medicine; it is an essential component of clinical excellence. AURF exists so that Amcolians begin asking answerable questions long before graduation, and finish their degree with the skills to answer them well.
The forum connects undergraduates with faculty mentors, alumni researchers, and the college's research infrastructure, turning classroom curiosity into study protocols, conference posters, and published papers.
Five commitments shape every workshop, mentorship pairing, and conference the forum runs.
Encouraging questions that have not been asked yet, and methods that have not been tried here before.
Honest data, honest authorship, and ethical review before the first participant is enrolled.
Students, faculty, and alumni working on the same problem rather than in parallel.
Work held to the standard of the journals we want it published in.
Research chosen for what it changes in patient care and health systems, not for what publishes easily.
Hands-on sessions run through the year, open to undergraduates across all sessions and taught by faculty and visiting alumni researchers.
Framing an answerable question, choosing a study design, sampling, and writing a protocol that survives ethical review.
Descriptive statistics, hypothesis testing, and reading your own output without guessing, all worked through on real datasets.
Structuring an IMRaD manuscript, writing an abstract that gets read, referencing, and responding to reviewers.
Bench sessions at the CREAM Lab: PCR, gene expression analysis, electrophoresis, and cell culture technique.
Poster and oral presentation tracks, judged by faculty panels, with the best work supported toward publication.
Matching students to faculty supervisors and alumni collaborators, and forming groups around shared research questions.
AURF works alongside the college's established research infrastructure. Each of these is maintained by Army Medical College.
A genetics and molecular biology facility supporting postgraduate and undergraduate work in PCR, gene expression, electrophoresis, cell culture, and bioinformatics, with completed SNP studies in diabetes, dyslipidemia, and PCOS.
Visit CREAM Lab →Chaired by the Principal and drawn from heads of the basic, clinical, and dental science departments. Every study involving participants or identifiable data needs its approval before enrolment begins.
Committee & members →The college's peer-reviewed platform for medical and allied sciences research: original articles, reviews, case reports, and short communications, with rapid peer review and international indexing.
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