Three Days Workshop on Bio Statistic & SPSS Concludes at KGMC

Dated:08-11-2009

A three days workshop on Bio Statistics and Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) organized by Directorate of Research and Development (R&D) Khyber Medical University (KMU), Peshawar at Khyber Girls Medical College (KGMC), Peshawar has been concluded here at Peshawar.

Prof. Dr. Arshad Javed Dean Post Graduate Medical Institute (PGMI), Hayatabad Medical Complex (HMC), Peshawar was the chief gues while VC KMU Prof. Dr. Mohammad Hafizullah was the guest of honour at the concluding session. Faculty members from KGMC, PGMI (HMC) participated in the workshop.

According to details KMU Directorate of R & D has launched first cycle of clinical capacity Development program a few months back for faculty and Post Graduate (PG) students of health academic institutions. The program includes training in the three basic essential fields of health research, research methodology, biostatistics and bioethics.

In the follow up of that program KMU organized a three days workshop to give hand on training on Bio statistics and the use of SPSS package for health research data analysis. Aims and objectives of this workshop was to increase awareness of statistical considerations, stress on concepts, applications not on calculations and mathematical equations less lecturing and more data, Statistical software widely available to do basic calculations and is to enable the participants to handle health relevant information in their research.

It is worth mentioning here that SPSS was released in its first version in 1968 and this technology has made difficult analytical tasks easier through advances in usability and data access, enabling more people to benefit from the use of quantitative techniques in making decisions.  SPSS is among the most widely used programs for statistical analysis in social science. It is used by market researchers, health researchers, survey companies, government, education researchers, marketing organizations and others.

These types of workshops were arranged first time for the faculty members and post graduate trainee students of various health institutions in the history of NWFP. Before these workshops there was no concept of Bio Statistics at graduate and post graduate level with in the health Institutions of the province.KMU is trying to fill these gaps through organizing such type of workshops.