IRIS – Summer School

Marianna Vachalcova, MD, PhD.

East Slovak Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases

„I really appreciate the opportunity to spend time with amazing specialists in various fields of science. I gained new knowledge, that I am making use of in my career.“

Jonas Jucevicius, MD

Doctor of Internal medicine, Kaunas Clinical Hospital, Lithuania

„I have attended this course (IRIS) at June 2019. The course was very intense mentally (I still think of it as “brain concentration camp”). However, it was one of the best experiences you could have to improve critical and fast thinking which is needed during any research and manuscript writing. Also it helped improve teamwork skills. I loved that you could always get constructive feedback and that everything was mixed with a grain of good humor. And though there were not lots of free time, it (free time) was of highest quality. I would recommend this course to anyone who is not afraid of challenge, wants to increase his/her interdisciplinary communication and scientific skills, meet interesting people, ask practical advices directly from experienced journal editors, or just have good time.“

Augustinas Tumenas, MD

National Cancer Institute, Vilnius, Lithuania

„I consider myself very lucky to be able to participate in the IRIS 2019 event. The format of the school was quite unexpected, but it turned out to be very useful – there were no preparative reading, no premade scenarios, just pure and bright ideas and very deep discussions. I was amazed by shear patience, competence and friendliness of the staff members. They were very helpful in generating and shaping sometimes clumsy and complex ideas. Last but not least, it was such a pleasure to with young, bright and cheerful group of international participants! I highly recommend to continue this initiative because this project helps to raise new generation of very good researchers and I was very happy to be a part of it!“

Ivana Matejova,
MD

Department of Paediatric, Otorhinolaringology

„In June 2019, I actively participated in IRIS Slovakia 2019 . This time was enriching, in international team work we actively participated in the prepared workshops focused on “how to do research and create a study.” The content of the workshops was: W1- W2 - Methods I (Study Populations and Outcomes), W3 - Methods II (Data Collection and Analysis), W4 - Research Administration. The last day we finished the presentation of the projects that we created in the team according to the instructions. Throughout the years, valuable advice and insights have given us expertise such as Jonathan Lipton (Hopbart Heart Center), Erik Eisenstein (Duke University, Durham, NC), Lia E. Bang (Righospitalet, Copenhagen), Ljuba Bacharova (Journal of Electrocardiology). We had the opportunity to consult our research with them, to discuss and move forward on the way to achieving the goals. I highly recommend this summer school to anyone who wants to grow professionally in their medical field.“

Vaclav Bacovsky

Institute of Biophysics ASCR, Czech Republic

„I would appreciate to inform also the participants before arrival, what the course is specifically about. This is simply because IRIS, as I saw, was focused more on clinical practice and clinical tests. The primary/hard science is quite different from the applicative science and the project proposals has different form. Therefore, it would be more beneficial to have people with similar education and job. Otherwise the IRIS was great and for the people from clinical trial was more than beneficial. For me, the greatest outcome was the experience of such intensive school and to see, how scientist and doctors think in the clinical trials. This, I believe could be helpful in the future.”

Gamal Zain

The Polymer Institute SAS, Egypt

„For me it is good chance to learn the basic steps for writing and management a project proposal. Yes. I will recommend young scientist to attend it as it is really good chance for learning. I think no other chance I have been attended for practical learning and creating of such cooperation like IRIS”