PASTIC organized a three-day training workshop on "Research Tools and Techniques" from 26-28 April 2017 at Rawalpindi Medical College (RMC), Rawalpindi. Twenty Seven participants from final year participated in the training. In the inaugural ceremony Dr. Faiza Aslam, Research Coordinator, RMC acknowledged the efforts of PASTIC for the capacity building of researchers. She said that such trainings are helpful for their students and such collaborations should be continued between RMC and PASTIC. Muhammad Usman, Web Manager, PASTIC was the resource person of the training workshop.

Group photo of the Participants of the Workshop

Prof. Dr. Muhammad Umar (SI), Principal, RMC was present in the closing ceremony. Dr. Faiza Aslam presented the report of the training. Mr. Aqil Khan, Additional Director, PASTIC addressed the audiences and introduced different activities of PASTIC and encouraged students/researchers to get facilitated with the PASTIC services. Dr. Umar, Principal, RMC congratulated all students for completing the training.

A glimpse of certificate awarding ceremony at the end of the Workshop

He emphasized that quantitative analysis is one of the core part of medical research field and trainings on such tools are very important for the medical students. He also requested PASTIC to conduct more trainings on the same topic as well as Citation tools like Mendeley and EndNote. The participants expressed their appreciation for organizing such need based training. Later on, certificates were also distributed among the participants.