The Department of Psychiatry and the Medical Education Unit, in collaboration with Global Godavari University, Rajahmundry, and with the financial support of the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), New Delhi, are organising a three-day residential, hands-on workshop on “Integrating AI Tools in Research Protocol Preparation” at the MEU Hall with Computer Lab, KIMS & RF, Amalapuram. Every postgraduate student must submit a thesis protocol, yet many find research methodology daunting, and ethics committees often return protocols for avoidable flaws. At the same time, AI tools are now widely available, but structured guidance on using them well and ethically is scarce. The workshop addresses this gap by training participants to use AI tools at each step of protocol preparation while questioning and verifying their output. The participants are postgraduate students of medical and health sciences and junior faculty members, each of whom will bring a thesis or research idea to develop into a draft protocol by the end of the workshop.
