Meeting Report First seminar on clinical research and publication

The First seminar was held at Tripoli Medical Centre on the 6th of August. The focus of the seminar was " clinical medical research and publication ". The seminar theme was designed to stimulate healthcare professionals to perform report and publish their clinical research to help improving the healthcare system in general. The organizing committee declared that there will more such events with the aim to help the young health care professionals attain unique skills , gain further insight into the ways of clinical research and publication to advance medicine and meet the continuous medical development needs for Libyan medical community. Overview of the Seminar: The faculty members were mainly from ljm Editorial and Reviewers Board. The main program was based on two sessions each consisting of three presentations followed by a panel discussion. The first session started with introduction words from Dr O Shamam, general director of TMC, who encouraged the young doctors to ask questions and be active in the seminar. Prof M Daw, editor in chief, provided a concise talk emphasizing the importance of making international contribution of Libyan data. Overview from previous Libyan publications from Italian colony time Journal bulletin Tripoliana up to date by steps done by ljm. The talk focused on importance of citations and making the Libyan research seen and read by others. Open Access publication and why ljm is an open access journal was the talk by Dr O Bakoush. The chosen strategy of Open access publication make a strong push for ljm to be indexed by Directory of Open access publication, Google scholar, and make ljm listed on many international universities libraries in different parts of the world. This makes ljm international journal and chances of citations increases. Problems of low contribution by Libyan medical professionals and poor response to peer review comments were also highlighted. Dr E A Elkhammas presented an overview on clinical research and the benefit to advance the quality of health care systems with a focus on the Libyan health care. He also stressed the importance of clinical research ethics as an important principle in conducting any research. To improve health service good quality clinical research is a must. Dr A Arifi talk was on delay on knowledge translation and the knowledge lost making the use of basic science into clinical practice unnecessary delay. Dr R Bendardf illustrated and reviewed the steps of how to write a …