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INSTITUTIONAL RESEARCH POLICY

A. INSTITUTIONAL RESEARCH POLICY

  1. Institutional Research Committee – IRC

    IRC has been constituted for ensuring quality research at the undergraduate level. The constitution and functions of the committee are as follows:

  2. Constitution of the Committee:

    The committee may be chaired by a faculty member of Assistant Professor or above level and be managed by the Secretary among the committee members. All the Research supervisors will be the members of the committee.

  3. Functions and Responsibilities of the Committee:
    • To ensure quality medical research at the undergraduate level
    • To divide students into research groups. Each group may have 3 to 4 students in it.
    • To rectify and ratify the students’ research topics & proposals.
    • To recommend supervisors for the students’ Final Dissertation
  4. The Scheme of Research:

    Total credits of research in the final semester of DPT & BS Paramedics are (0+6) in number, while total credits of research in the final semester of BSN are (0+5) in number; each credit of research is equivalent to 3 Contact Hours per Week. Total of 240-288 contact Hours to be covered by each student/student group in the last 2 semesters. For convenience, the following scheme is to be followed.

    • 2nd last Semester: Allotment of Supervisors to groups, Research Topic selection, submission of synopsis, and its approval by the Institutional Research Committee.
    • Final Semester: Data Collection, Data Analysis, Dissertation writing commencement, Submission of Final thesis/dissertation, and its defense.
  5. Supervisors:
    • Supervisor must be a lecturer or above in a respective discipline with at least 1 year of research experience. It will be mandatory for the Supervisor to conduct the student’s research sessions and document it on a prescribed pro-forma.
    • Each Supervisor may only supervise 2 research projects at one time in the same semester. In special cases, permission may be given by the committee to supervise more research groups.
    • The Supervisor has to teach the student’s necessary research skills and also data analysis.
    • A research Supervisor has to maintain documentation of the student’s sessions. Internal assessment should be marked by the supervisor of each student on the basis of the student’s participation in the group and performance in research.
    • The Institute may remunerate the supervisors for supervising the research projects on a per-project basis. (5000 PKR/project)
  6. Final Defense:
    • The final defense of students shall be conducted in front of the Institutional Research Committee, external examiner, and supervisor (Internal Examiner); external & internal examiners will evaluate the students according to concerned University policy/rules for dissertation defense.
    • Plagiarism policy of the concerned University is to be followed.
    • 4 copies of the final approved thesis have to be submitted by each student group:
      • One copy to be submitted to the examination Department of the University
      • One copy (soft copy) for the Department
      • One hard copy for the library of the Institute
      • One student copy.
  7. Guidelines for the preparation of Synopsis:

    Guidelines for synopsis (Available with the chairperson IRC)

  8. Guidelines for the preparation of Thesis:

    Guidelines for thesis (Available with the chairperson IRC)

  9. Undergraduate Students Research Step-Wise Procedure:
    1. Students of all Programmes in their 2nd last semester shall submit their research titles to concerned supervisors; the concerned supervisor shall forward the students’ research titles to the secretary/Chairperson of IRC through the concerned Programme coordinator.
    2. List of titles shall be presented and approval shall be granted by IRC.
    3. Students shall submit their research Proposal to IRC in soft form one week prior to proposal defense through the proper channel as described in the first step.
    4. Proposal defense shall be conducted and final approval shall be granted by IRC with or without major and minor corrections.
    5. Ethical consideration & approval shall be granted by IRC.
    6. Official data collection request letter shall be issued by the Director campus for the students’ research data collection to concerned organizations.
    7. Data shall be collected by the students and shall commence thesis writing for their research project on the prescribed format.
    8. The collected data shall be analyzed by the students through SPSS Software under the supervision of their supervisors.
    9. Students shall submit their thesis to their respective supervisors in hard form for review.
    10. Final thesis defense shall be conducted through viva by internal & external examiners and concerned supervisors of the discipline.
    11. Hard binding copies four (4) in number of the final approved thesis shall be submitted by the students to the concerned supervisors.