Sri Ramachandra University Phd Admission

My brother wants to do PhD from Sri Ramachandra University so would you please give me some information about admission?

[Kiran Chandar]

Sri Ramachandra University was founded in 1985 by Sri Ramachandra Education & Health Trust, it is a deemed university declared under Section 3 of the UGC at 1956, in Porur, Chennai, India.

Applicants who want to do PhD from Sri Ramachandra University, they will have to give entrance exam which is conducted in January & June of every year.

Eligibility:
Applicants must have Master's Degree awarded by this University or of any other University or any other qualification recognized by this University

For more details about it here I am attaching pdf file which is free for download

SYLLABUS
(Common for all Ph.D. Candidates)
Part – I Research Methodology Examination
Paper – I RESEARCH METHODOLOGY INCLUDING BIOSTATISTICS
1. Process of selection of research question including prioritization and feasibility, research process, process of writing a research proposal, scientific writing for thesis and research publications.

2. Review of literature: what is review of literature, need for review of literature, primary and secondary sources for review, treatise, monographs, patents, current literature methods, abstraction of research papers, major secondary sources, bibliographic databases, web as source of information, information retrieval, information processing, critical evaluation, organization of materials collected and writing of review, methods of writing references and bibliography.

3. Scales of measurement: Basic concepts in response scales, types of scales, categorical scales, nominal scales, ordinal scales and interval scales, visual analogue scales, composite scales, Guttman scale, combination scores, likert scale, principles and approaches in questionnaire development.

4. Measures of disease frequency and association, prevalence, incidence, crude, specific and adjusted (standardized) rates, relative risk, odds ratio, standardized mortality ratios, attributable risk and interpretation of measures of association.

5. Descriptive epidemiological studies: correlational studies, case reports and case series, cross sectional studies, hypothesis formulation from descriptive studies.

6. Case control studies: Design and conduct of case control studies, analysis and interpretation of results, bias in case control studies.

7. Cohort studies: Types of cohort studies, design and conduct of cohort studies, analysis and interpretation of results, bias in cohort studies.

8. Interventional studies: Types of interventional studies, design and conduct of randomized controlled trials, analysis and interpretation of results

9. Evaluating role of bias and confounding: Types of bias, control of bias, evaluation of role of bias, nature of confounding, methods of controlling confounding.

10. Statistical association and cause effect relationship: Evaluation of the presence of valid statistical association, judgment of a cause-effect relationship.

11. Drug discovery and evaluation: Historical approaches in drug discovery, pharmacological approaches of modern medicine, new approaches in drug discovery, pharmacological evaluation of acute, sub acute, chronic toxicity studies, pharmacological evaluation methods, and OECD guidelines.

12. Presentation and summarization of data: Types of variables, data presentation, tables, charts and diagrams.

13. Measures of central tendency and location: Mean, median, mode, position average, and percentile.

14. Measures of dispersion: Range, inter-quartile range, mean deviation, standard deviation and coefficient of variation.

15. Probability: Probability scale, measurement of probability, laws of probability for independent events, conditional probability, Bayes’ theorm.

16. Probability distribution: binomial distribution, Poisson distribution, normal distribution, t distribution.

17. Sampling: Population, sample, sampling variations and bias, probability sampling methods, concepts in calculation of sample size.

18. Evaluating role of chance: Normal distribution, inferential statistics, hypothesis testing, p value, confidence intervals

19. Confidence interval for mean, statistical test of significance for difference between two means and more than two means (ANOVA).

20. Confidence interval for proportion, statistical test of significance for difference between two proportions and more than two proportions (chi-squared test).

21. Correlation, linear regression, multiple regression and logistic regression.

22. Non parametric methods: Sign test, Wilcoxon signed-rank test, median test, Mann-Whitney test, Kruskal-Wallis test, Friedman test, Spearman rank correlation coefficient. Advantages, disadvantages and application of non-parametric tests.

23. Ethics and biomedical research: General principles on ethical considerations involving human subjects, ethical review procedures, Institutional ethics committee, its organization and functions, general ethical issues. Specific principles for clinical evaluation of drugs / devices / diagnosis / vaccines / herbal remedies, specific principles in epidemiological studies, specific principles in human genetic research, specific principles for research in transplantation including fetal tissue implantation.

24. Ethical guidelines for experimental animals: Sources of experimental animals, Lab. animal husbandry and management, anesthesia and euthanasia, laboratory animal ethics, animal ethics committee, its organization and functions, ethical guidelines for use of animals for

26 scientific research, CPCSEA guidelines, in-vitro system to replace animals, legal provisions for experimentation of animals.

Reference books:
1. Epidemiology in medicine, Charles H. Hennekens and Jules E.Burling.(1987)
2. Oxford Text Book of Public Health (5th edition), volume 2, Oxford University press.(2011)
3. Essentials of Medical Statistics by Belty R. Kirkwood.(2011)
4. An Introduction to biostatistics by P.S.S. Sundar Rau.(2006)
5. Ethical guidelines for biomedical research on human subjects, ICMR, New Delhi 2006
6. Guidelines for care and use of animals in scientific research. Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi 2000.
7. Research Methodology, methods and techniques by C.R. Kothari.(2009)
8. Basic epidemiology, 2nd edition, R Bonita, R Beaglehole and T Kjellstrom (2007)
9. Statistical methods in medical research, 4th edition, P Armitage, G Berry and JNS Matthews. (2001)
10. Biostatistics: A foundation for analysis in health sciences, 9th edition, Wayne W Daniel (2008)

Address:
Sri Ramachandra University
No.1, Ramachandra Nagar Porur
Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600116

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