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Revealing the Mysteries of Medical Research, Education, and Publication
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Monitoring the market changes and how medical schools witnessed a historical increase in applicants, as it increased almost 18% more than the last educational year, according to the data received from some international associations. ICOM Group, as a sustainable educational provider, believes that the role of any service provider is foundational, and a suitable method of founding education platforms is sufficient training and strong support, which can vigorously improve the excellence of learning as a whole. ICOM implemented a long-term strategy to accept the fast and sudden shifts that happen within the medical world. A strategy where the goal is to fulfil the needs of the healthcare industry and become its support system.
Upon that, ICOM initiated 10 years ago the "Medical Education, Research, and Publications Department" with a mission to bring to the medical industry newly shaped products that fit into the rapidly changing global conditions and occupy the sectors of medical research, medical projects, medical education, and medical publishing, each with a different customized approach and personalized activities. Putting ICOM Group in a niche position within the PCO industry and giving them the privilege of being supported by a strong medical advisory system.
For many years, ICOM Group's main aim has been to provide various shapes and types of learning opportunities to the medical societies, aspiring for an intellectual world and a rapid reaction to any changes and updates, seeking perfection and being the real support system of the healthcare industry.
- Dr. Ahmed ElShal, ICOM Group Chairman.
1. The Medical Research Management:
Insights prove that medical research today promises to decrease the impact of the greatest health problems, including diabetes, cancer, and heart disease. And as research keeps developing, we will see profound changes in the treatment approaches. The department gave support to many facilities and entities in all types of research, either through its registries, white papers, or surveys.
The department members are skilled in collecting data needed for any topic or study. They are aware of the know-how of medical research in all specialities, starting from any software needed, protocols, and communications between all involved arms, and assisting in medical writing in the most contemporary way, to be used in various methods and shapes. Upon that research, the team members provide a unique and extremely detailed statistical analysis report, making a documented and data-recorded manuscript, and at other times, they are professional in turning some registries into well-organized meetings or training for better in-person engagement and creating sustainable projects that positively affect society, some with the government, others with international or local associations.
It’s our mission to improve the delivery and patients' access to treatment, thereby reducing the mortality and morbidity of patients suffering from acute coronary syndromes. Hope we succeed together with ICOM Medical Team in making a radical change with the registries and research work that they are conducting.
- Prof. Mohamed Sobhy, Professor of Cardiology
Training on the GHATI data collection sheet and guide
Stent Save a Life Egyptian Initiative, cooperating with the Ministry of Health to implement a system for reimbursement to encourage hospitals to apply the SSL system to save millions of patients’ hearts
ICOM was persistently supporting our everlasting efforts to establish a stable, all-inclusive "Database Registry" of all STEMI cases in Egypt.
- Prof. Sameh Shaheen, Professor of Cardiology
"The implementation of 'The Global Heart Attack Treatment Initiative (GHATI)' in Egypt will build an invaluable data set that will advance the development and delivery of acute MI standards of care"
- Prof. Mohamed Sadaka, Professor of Cardiology
Further intel of the Medical Department to support the junior doctors’ research and efforts. They can manage any “Grants Program” from initiation to execution. . Through the huge database of ICOM group, they can easily initiate different grants programs in different specialties and from different entities. Apparently, the department had created 3 different successful grants:
• Prof. Wael Al-Mahmeed Grant
• Prof. Sobhy Grant
• Prof. Abdelbanna Grant
The process of grants is simple and smooth, aiming to encourage the research process, and allows more juniors to leave their signature in the cardiology department in Egypt
- Prof. Wael Al Mahmeed, Cardiology Consultant
2. The Medical Education:
ICOM knows that it entails acquiring knowledge to have a greater understanding of various disciplines. The team members can smoothly provide different types of education for the public in "Awareness Sessions" about different trendy topics with the collaboration of ICOM’s affiliate company "EXPAND", one of the main cornerstones which is societal awareness about diseases and health issues. And for the education opportunities for healthcare professionals, the "E-posters" activities which support new topics or thesis of junior and senior physicians and provide them with a chance to present their "abstracts" or "challenging cases" they’ve faced before, exchanging their experience with other colleagues in an environment full of integrity and high spirit. Within this year, we’ve received 600+ submissions with around 500+ accepted research.
Furthermore, the medical department had created numbers of consensus (a general agreement of a specific cause) for different entities, tailored based on their requests and guidelines and presented in a professional manner. Even for ICOM-created conferences and events, the medical team assists in programme composition and suggests international and local speakers who perfectly fit the requested need.
It was a great experience for my colleagues to share with the ICOM medical team in our Congress concerning the E-Poster presentation, and the attendees found it very fruitful and beneficial, especially between the sessions. Also, a number of attendees came specifically to these sessions to prepare themselves for next year's E-posters.
- Prof. Tarek Molokheya, Professor of Psychiatry
3. The Medical Publishing:
The medical department team is talented in creating impactful publications to be shared with our wide network of medical journals, either international or national ones, all with high impact factors. For the greatest benefit to all parties, some of the collaborations are with The Endocrine Society, The European Society of Cardiology, Oxford University Press, Emirates Cardiac Society, and The Gulf Intervention Society, sharing many publications, in all their types, whether they are highlights, newsletters, booklets, posters, or E-posters, or conference highlights as in the Medical Spotlights project. All of these can be digitalized or printed and perfectly created to meet the requested call in no time.
Also, they are capable of creating medical journals from scratch tailored on the requests of the medical societies to benefit the surrounding professionals. They’ve created more than 10 journals & proceedings for this year.
And believing that the importance of physical events as in-person engagement leaves higher chances of effective communication, strong relationships, and excessive productivity, the department changed the concept of "paper" publications into a more modern interactive shape, as in the "Master Spoke Out" studio.
The MSO is an analytical studio that happens during a medical conference time in which some epic speakers analyse and discuss the most controversial topics presented at that specific conference for better chances of exchanging experience and knowledge. It happens to be one of the most effective ways of delivering new information to the physicians and healthcare professionals who have or have not attended that conference. Since the founding of this project, which was in mid-2021, they’ve created +115 episodes in 10 conferences of 6 specialties, promising to always keep creating new adaptive learning opportunities for the healthcare industry.
Dr. Noha Ghanem, Medical Education, Research, and Publications Department Director, said:
We began this journey years ago, creating services and projects to gear up with the global conditions and market needs and making sure that they are unique and of sustainable value for the healthcare industry and the public
The medical industry's ideas alter every now and then, based on market updates and changes and social trends. This was the purpose of inventing the Medical Education, Research, and Publications Department with all its different services and products, shielding most of the needs of the healthcare professional, either junior doctors, seniors, or even professors!
It’s a vow we took to make the most out of our industry to benefit the professionals and be their ultimate support system, not only for a better healthcare industry but for an overall healthier society with no unacquaintance or diseases.
