Miscellaneous: Problem-oriented education and cross-cultural collaboration: experiences and comments on the Scientific Summer School in Turkey 2010

Scientific Summer School (SSS) is a collaborative international initiative that was designed to improve the development of research skills among participants based on a practical, problem-oriented education. This year, it was organized in Turkey, where the conduction of relevant biomedical research is of significant interest. Additionally, there is an understanding that practical skills relevant to biomedical and health care research studies are key tools in the ability to meet local and international research needs and to maintain quality in health care standards. The focus of the Scientific Summer School was to experience the skills of designing the outcome research study: creating a logical hypothesis, determining significance of study, planning how to select study population and outcomes, data types, collection and analysis. The main principles of the Scientific Summer School were: 1. To apply the problem-oriented education in designing the outcome research study 2. To encourage the cross-discipline/cross-cultural collaboration 3. To maintain the respect to each other