Innovative Education and Research

Innovative Academia Programs

To be announced

Research Domain

Clinical Support Subcommittee (COM)

• To facilitate and enhance the clinical research capabilities of Alfaisal University by fostering collaborations between the College of Medicine, Alfaisal University, and affiliated hospitals.
• One of the projects will be to create a registry of clinicians and Alfaisal medical students working together on clinical research projects and to ensure both parties are satisfied at the end of the collaboration.

Patient-Centered Research & Community-Centered Research (Consumer/End-User Level)

• Research under this program will mainly include Patient-Centered Research and Community-Centered Research. Patient-Centered Outcomes Research helps patients and their caregivers communicate and make informed healthcare decisions, allowing their voices to be heard in assessing the value of healthcare options. Patient-centered research planning means developing research questions and outcome measures that are relevant to patients. Under this domain, researchers must determine which patient populations and stakeholders to include in study design and then facilitate easy study participation. The research focuses attention on the patients' beliefs, preferences, and needs, in contrast to physician-centered care.

Faculty Research Mentorship Network (Researcher/Provider Level)

• This will be a peer-assisted program where faculty who have either solid research ideas and/or data wish to conduct research and require the help of more research-experienced faculty to complete their projects. This will include adjunct faculty in clinical settings who have access to clinical data but are unsure of how to utilize the data or write up a research paper. We will be connecting faculty who can bridge the gap among each other and produce scientific studies together.

Primary Care Research Interest Group (Learner/Facilitator Level)

• This will be an interest group where interested students from any level (alumni/interns/clerkship students/pre-clerkship students) who have an interest in primary care (internal medicine/family medicine/emergency medicine) research will be connected to a supervisor who will help design, allocate resources, and execute research projects under the program.