RCSI Bahrain announces research competition, publication award winners

TDT | Manama

The Daily Tribune – www.newsofbahrain.com

The Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland-Medical University of Bahrain (RCSI Bahrain) has announced the top three winners of its Research Summer School – Research Review Competition 2021 and Undergraduate Student Publication Award, held under the guidance of the School of Postgraduate Studies and Research to introduce RCSI Bahrain undergraduates to the world of research.

With research being a core pillar of RCSI Bahrain, all students from the School of Medicine and the School of Nursing and Midwifery were invited individually or in groups, to submit a research review on a topic of their choice.

RCSI Bahrain academics, alumni and external academics provided mentorship to support the students.

Training and resources on framing search strategies, finding articles/books, using databases, writing reviews and referencing were provided to students by the RCSI Bahrain Library.

The first-place prize winners for the Research Review 2021 Competition are Mina Iskandar, Faris Solomon Al Madi, Saad Mallah, Andrew Hanna, Mohamed Diab and Tharmegan Tharmaratnam for their review titled “Children Are Not Little Adults: A Review of SARS-CoV-2 in the Paediatric Population.”

Winners of the second-place prize are Ali Mardini and Seemal Qadir for their review titled “Eyeing out the pandemic: A review of the ocular manifestations of COVID-19” and the winners of the third-place are Prianna Menezes, Jayaditya Patil and Alekya Anala for their research review titled “The challenges of diagnosing Placenta Accreta.

Can MRI help in management: A case series review.”

This year, the university also launched the RCSI Bahrain Student Publication Database and Undergraduate Student Publication Award, in celebration and recognition of RCSI Bahrain’s undergraduate student’s achievements in peer-reviewed research journal publication.

The award-winning publications were selected based on different criteria including affiliation, journal metrics and contributing student authorship.

Three publications were selected for this year’s award and were published between 2020-21.

The winners are Jay Chieh Liu Jr and Ayesha Zaidi for their publication entitled “Epidemiology of Paediatric Trauma in the Kingdom of Bahrain: A national paediatric trauma registry pilot study”; Saad Mallah, Fathi Moustafa and Michael Naguib for their publication entitled “Evidence-based pharmacotherapy for prevention and management of cardiac allograft vasculopathy” and Taimur Habib for his publication entitled “Nano-clays as Potential Pseudo-antibodies for COVID-19.”