The International Web-based Course on Research in Primary Health Care

The European General Practice Research Network is proud to announce the launch of the "The International Web-based Course on Research in Primary Health Care".

Enrol on Course

• The course is free of charge to Individual Members and Institutional Members of the EGPRN.
• Individual members, please log in to your EGPRN account and go to the course enrollment page.
• Members of our Institutional Members, please contact your institutes representative to receive access instructions.
• Non-members may take the course by creating an EGPRN account and go to the course enrollment page. Fee for non-members is 100€, payable online. Please consider becoming an EGPRN member as the course is free for members and becoming a members has many advantages.

Objectives

• To help participants to design a research question.
• To give participants a basic understanding of research methods and biostatistics.
• To give practical experience of development of study protocols and applications for research funding.
• To give practical experience of use of computers for database manipulation, use of spread-sheets and statistical analysis.

The course is suitable for general practitioners and other primary care doctors,and other healthcare related professionals interested in research.

Description of the course

• The course and website language interface is English.
• The course contains 25 modules of teaching and practical half-day workshop as a final step of the course.
• Each web-based module consists of a 15-25 minutes didactic lecture, links to complementary materials and a short post-module test.

Course Modules

Certificate of participation

A certificate of participation and graduation, will be given to participants that complete all the web-based modules and have participated in the final practical half-day workshop.

Scientific committee

Name and Position	Contact
Ferdinando Petrazzuoli	Centre for Primary Health Care Research, Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden, Italy
Mehmet Ungan	Ankara University School of Medicine Ibn-I Sina Hospital, Family Medicine, Türkiye
Shlomo Vinker	Leumit Health Services, Family Meidcine, Israel

Lecturers affiliations

• Sibyl Anthierens MA, PhD
  Post-doctoral researcher at Department of Primary and Interdisciplinary Care. Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences. University of Antwerp. Antwerp, Belgium
• Hilde Bastiaens MD, PhD
  Professor at Department of Primary and Interdisciplinary Care. Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences. University of Antwerp. Antwerp, Belgium
• Nicola Buono MD
  EGPRN Educational Committee.
  SNAMID (National Society of Medical Education in General Practice), Caserta, Italy
• Claire Collins PhD, MSocSc, BSocSc Dip Stats.
  Chair of the EGPRN Research Strategy Committee
  Director of Research & Innovation, Irish College of General Practitioners, Dublin, Ireland.
• Thomas Frese MD, PhD
  EGPRN Research Strategy Committee.
  Professor Institute of General Practice and Family Medicine, Medical Faculty, Martin-Luther- University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle/Saale, Germany
• Michael Harris MD
  EGPRN Educational Committee.
  University of Bath. Bath, United Kingdom
• Kristin Hendrickx MD, PhD
  EGPRN Educational Committee.
  Department of Primary and Interdisciplinary Care. Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences. University of Antwerp. Antwerp, Belgium
• Anthony Heymann MD
  Professor Department of Family Medicine University of Tel Aviv. Tel Aviv, Israel
• Tuomas H. Koskela MD, PhD
  EGPRN Public Relations and Communications Committee.
  Omapihlaja Health Centre, University of Tampere. Tampere, Finland
• Jean Yves Le Reste MD, PhD
  EGPRN Research Strategy Committee.
  Professor. Equipe D’Accueil SPURBO. Department of General Practice, Université de Bretagne Occidentale. Brest, France
• Miguel Angel Muñoz Pérez MD, PhD.
  EGPRN Research Strategy Committee.
  Primary Care University Research Institute IDIAP-Jordi Gol, Institut Català de la Salut and Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
• Ana Luisa Neves MD, MSc PhD
  EGPRN Public Relations and Communications Committee.
  Research Fellow at Imperial College London, UK. Honorary Lecturer at University of Porto, Portugal. Editor of the Portuguese Journal of Family Medicine and General Practice.
• Lieve Peremans MD, PhD
  EGPRN Educational Committee.
  Professor at Department of Primary and Interdisciplinary Care. Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences. University of Antwerp. Antwerp, Belgium
• Marija Petek Šter MD, PhD
  EGPRN Educational Committee.
  Department for family medicine, University of Ljubljana. Ljubljana, Slovenia
• Ferdinando Petrazzuoli MD, MSc
  EGPRN Educational Committee.
  Department of Clinical Sciences in Malmö, Centre for Primary Health Care Research, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden. 
• Jean Karl Soler MD, PhD
  EGPRN Past Chair. Mediterranean Institute of Primary Care. Attard, Malta
• Hans Thulesius MD, PhD
  EGPRN Educational Committee.
  Associate professor of Family Medicine, Department of Clinical Sciences in Malmö, Centre for Primary Health Care Research, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden. On editorial board of Scandinavian Journal of
  Primary Health Care. FoU-Kronoberg. Växjö, Sweden.
• Pemra C. Unalan MD
  EGPRN Educational Committee.
  Department of Family Medicine, Marmara University Medical Faculty, Istanbul. Istanbul, Turkey
• Mehmet Ungan MD
  EGPRN Chair
  Professor of Family Medicine. Ankara University School of Medicine, Department of Family Medicine. Ankara, Turkey
• Shlomo Vinker MD, MHA
  EGPRN Educational Committee
  Leumit Health Services, Family Meidcine POB 14238 Ashdod 77041 Israel

Acknowledgments

We would like to thank Ruth Bridgewater; Nicola Buono; Marco Cambielli; Frank Dobbs; Kristin Hendrikx; Caroline Huas; Anthony Mifsud; Teresa Pawlikowska, Lieve Peremans, Ferdinando Petrazzuoli; Hagen Sandholzer; Jean Karl Soler; Jelle Stoffers; Igor Svab; Paul Van Royen; for their important contributions to past face-to-face EGPRN courses, as lecturers and contributors.