This document discusses medical research. It defines medical research as basic, applied, or translational research conducted to advance knowledge in medicine. It describes the main categories of medical research as clinical trials to evaluate new treatments, preclinical research to develop new therapeutic strategies, and translational research that feeds between basic and clinical research in iterative loops. It also lists some of the major fields that medical research covers, including public health, epidemiology, cancer, neuroscience, genetics, and more. It discusses the ethical principles of medical research involving humans from the Declaration of Helsinki and the role of qualitative research in evidence-based medicine.

1. MEDICAL RESEARCH Dr. Lucila De la Calle Andrade, M.D. UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE CHIMBORAZO RIOBAMBA-ECUADOR

2. MEDICAL RESEARCH “Biomedicalresearch (orexperimental medicine), in general simplyknown as medicalresearch, isthebasicresearch, appliedresearch, ortranslationalresearchconductedtoaid and supportthebody of knowledge in thefield of medicine”. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_research)

3. CATEGORIES OF MEDICAL RESEARCH Clinicaltrials: evaluation of new treatments Preclinicalresearch: elaboration of knowledgeforthedevelopment of new therapeuticstrategies Translationalresearch, iterativefeedbackloopsbetweenthebasic and clinicalresearch

4. FIELDS OF MEDICAL RESEARCH PublicHealth Epidemiology Preventive medicine Behavioralhealth

5. FIELDS OF MEDICAL RESEARCH Cancer Aging Endocrinology Neuroendocrinology Diabetes

6. FIELDS OF MEDICAL RESEARCH Cellularbiology Molecular biology Pharmacology Psychopharmacology Neuroscience Genetics Virology

7. FIELDS OF MEDICAL RESEARCH BiomedicalInformatics Biomedicaltechnology Animal testing Humanexperimentation

8. BIOETHICAL PRINCIPLES The World Medical Association has developed the Declaration of Helsinki as a statement of ethical principles to provide guidance to physicians and other scientists that do medical research on humans. Medical research involving human beingsincludes research on human material or identifiable information. The physician's duty is to promote and safeguard the health of people. The Knowledge and the mind of a medical professional are dedicated to fulfilling that duty. http://www.sld.cu/galerias/pdf/sitios/rehabilitacion-logo/declaracion_de_helsinky.pdf

9. QUALITATIVE RESEARCH AND EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE “Qualitativeresearchmayseemunscientific and anecdotaltomanymedicalscientists. However, as thecritics of evidencebased medicine are quicktopointout, medicine itselfis more thantheapplication of scientificrules.Clinicalexperience, basedon personal observation, reflection, and judgment, isalsoneededtotranslatescientificresultsintotreatment of individual patients”. http://www.bmj.com/content/316/7139/1230.full

10. QUALITATIVE RESEARCH AND EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE “Qualitativemethods can help bridge the gap betweenscientificevidence and clinicalpractice Qualitativeresearchfindingsproviderigorousaccounts of treatmentregimens in everydaycontexts This can helpusunderstandthebarrierstousingevidencebased medicine, and itslimitations in informingdecisionsabouttreatment Recognisingthelimits of evidencebased medicine doesnotimply a rejection of researchevidencebutawarenessthatdifferentresearchquestionsrequiredifferentkinds of research http://www.bmj.com/content/316/7139/1230.full

11. PUBLICATION OF MEDICAL RESEARCH Medicalresearchispublishedthroughscientific magazines, virtual meansormedicalupdatingevents.

12. BIBLIOGRAPHY http://www.fisterra.com/mbe/investiga/index.asp http://www.sld.cu/galerias/pdf/sitios/rehabilitacion-logo/declaracion_de_helsinky.pdf http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_research

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