27th March, 2014 PIPH conducted a workshop on SPSS and EndNote on 27th March, 2014 for supervisors and clinicians. Eleven participants from Lady Reading Hospital, Peshawar and PGMI, Hayatabad were given a hands-on training on SPSS and EndNote. Dr. Usman Raza and Dr. Fazal Zeeshan were facilitators for SPSS and EndNote respectively.
The program started at 8:30am with recitation of the Holy Quran (Mohd. Zeeshan), followed by a welcome note from Dr. Mohammad Aman, HoD, CHS and remarks by the Dean, PGMI, Prof. Riaz Anwar.
The training started with an online assessment course, followed by an introduction to SPSS interface. Trainees had hands-on practice with SPSS data entry, variable coding, descriptive statistics, graphs, chi-square and t-tests.
There was a refresher session on Referencing and Vancouver system of Referencing which was followed by an introduction and hands-on session on EndNote. The workshop ended with feedback and evaluation at 3:00pm.
Through this workshop, the trainees gained a working knowledge of how both SPSS and EndNote operate. Both these programs are vital in research writing process and data evaluation.
Prof. Riaz Anwar, Dean PGMI, and Dr. Saeed Farooq, Director Research, PGMI, presided over the workshop. At the end of the workshop, Dr. Saeed Anwar, Director PIPH, and Dr. Sobia Sabir Ali, Deputy Director, PGMI awarded certificates to the trainees.
