Overview:
Clinical Development and Research Unit at Birjand Imam-Reza Hospital was opened by the help of research deputy of Birjand University of Medical Sciences and the principal of Imam-Reza Education-Research and Treatment Center in 2019.
This unit is under direct supervision of hospital principal and it operates under the guide of the vice chancellor for the Research and Technology of Birjand University of Medical Sciences. All services and research facilities in this center are provided for free using medical research funds allocated by the vice chancellor for the Research and Technology of Birjand University of Medical Sciences and Imam-Reza Hospital.
 
Objectives:
•    Providing facilities needed for doing clinical research
•    Empowering the faculty members and clinical students
•    Improving the quality and quantity of research papers
•    Approval of research policy in the hospital in line with research policies at the university
•    Increasing awareness and changing attitudes and performances of researchers in the area of clinical problems
•    Providing human resources and facilities which are needed by Clinical Research and Development Unit
•    Supervising research activities to be done in the best way
•    Making efforts to merge research activities in the fields of education and treatment
•    Consulting and helping students to write research proposals
•    Providing statistical consultation to professors and students for their dissertation
•    Helping students to change their dissertations to research papers
•    Holding workshops and educational-research seminars
•    Holding workshops to teach research methodology, writing papers, searching for sources, …
•    Holding workshops to teach research software tools and electronic search systems
 
Consulting Services and List of Consultants in this Unit:
•    Statistical consultation and data analysis (filtering data and analyzing data)
•    Providing epidemiology and research methodology consulting (searching for sources, codification of research proposals, consulting in implementation of the study and writing report)
•    Consulting students about ethical issues in medical researches
•    Helping students to edit their scientific papers and reports written in English and Persian

•    Helping students to publish their research results (writing paper, submitting papers, tracking papers from acceptance to publication)
 
Unit Principal:
Dr Mahdi Ghoncheh, Assistant Professor of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery
, faculty member of Birjand University of Medical Sciences
 
Academic staff:
Omid Kiani, MSc in Biostatistics

Address: Clinical Research and Development Unit, Imam-Reza Hospital, Taleghani Street. Birjand, Iran
Tel: +98-56-31624469