COHORT CLUB / MEDICAL RESEARCH

Research shouldnot depend onwho you know.

Cohort Club exists to make research accessible to every MBBS student — regardless of college, city, or personal contacts. Learn from people who have actually done it, with a community built by students, for students.

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STUDENT-RUN · RESEARCH-FIRST · PAN-INDIA

Research access

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From
curious
to capable.

A practical path through research — from your first question to your first project, manuscript, presentation, or opportunity.

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01 / THE WHY

We started with a simple problem.

Medical research is often taught as if access is automatic. It isn't. The right mentor, senior, college, or connection can change everything.

Make the starting line fair.

I was a first-year MBBS student once. I wanted to learn research, but there was no clear source, no obvious roadmap, and no single place that told me what to do next.

Cohort Club is our answer to that experience: a student-run research community built so no junior has to figure it all out alone.

Students trained

Medical colleges · pan India

Projects / manuscripts / outcomes

02 / THE CURRICULUM

Everything you need to stop feeling lost.

We focus on the parts of research that students actually need to navigate in medical school — without burying the useful stuff under theory.

Research fundamentals

Understand how medical research works, where opportunities come from, and how to begin in MBBS.

Finding a question

Turn clinical curiosity into a focused, feasible research question worth pursuing.

Literature & AI tools

Search intelligently, read papers faster, organise evidence, and use modern research tools responsibly.

Study design

Know what study design fits your question and what makes a project practical for a student.

Data & statistics

Build enough statistical literacy to plan, analyse, interpret, and communicate your data.

Manuscript writing

Move from results to a clear manuscript with structure, references, figures, and scientific writing.

Systematic reviews

Learn the workflow behind structured evidence synthesis and how to approach your first review.

Ethics & opportunities

Understand ethics, ICMR pathways, presentations, scholarships, conferences, and where students can go next.

03 / WHY COHORT CLUB

Not another generic course.

Research is easier to understand when the person teaching it has recently navigated the same maze.

01 / PERSONALISATION

Learn around your reality.

Your college, your year, your access to mentors, your time. We teach the framework — then help you translate it into something you can actually do.

02 / EXPERIENCE

Learn from people who've done it.

Our sessions are grounded in real projects, manuscripts, workshops, scholarships, presentations, and the mistakes that happen between the first idea and the final outcome.

03 / COMMUNITY

Don't figure it out alone.

Join a network of MBBS students who are asking the same questions, looking for collaborators, and taking their first serious steps into research.

04 / WORKSHOPS

Built to be used, not just watched.

Short, practical workshops designed around the exact bottlenecks students face when they try to start research.

01Research 101: Starting with Research in 1st MBBSA beginner-friendly introduction to research, opportunities and how to get started.↗ 02Hands-on Manuscript WritingIMRAD, citations, scientific writing and actually drafting a manuscript.↗ 03ICMR STS: From idea to applicationA practical pathway through project ideation, protocol thinking and the STS process.↗ 04Systematic Review StarterA structured first look at evidence synthesis and the tools that make it manageable.↗

05 / STUDENT STORIES

The point is what happens after the workshop.

These are student-reported experiences from Cohort Club sessions and follow-on research journeys.

★★★★★

“It’s been a dead group, but I want to share something with you guys. You were the first group I worked with for a research paper.”

MBBS student · Manuscript workshop participant

★★★★★

“I had an incredible experience at today’s session! Learning about research and ICMR was eye-opening, and I’m grateful for the panelists’ valuable insights.”

Manasvi · Government Medical College Goa · Batch of 2024

★★★★★

“A course in December and 2 research papers within 3 months… Won’t forget you!”

MBBS student · Cohort Club participant

DHR-ePMS communication confirming STS-2026 selection, shown as evidence of a student outcome

From workshop to opportunity.

Manasvi attended a Cohort Club ICMR STS workshop in November 2025 and was subsequently selected for the ICMR STS-2026 research scholarship.

Handwritten notes from a Cohort Club manuscript writing workshop

Learning by doing.

Our manuscript sessions are built around drafting, critique and practical decisions — not passive lecture notes.

Manasvi Kunde, Cohort Club Research 101 speaker

Student → researcher → speaker

A COHORT CLUB STORY

The student can become the person who teaches the next batch.

Manasvi started as a student looking to understand research and ICMR opportunities. After attending a Cohort Club workshop, she went on to be selected for the ICMR STS Research Scholarship and later returned to share her experience with juniors.

“I’m eager to attend more sessions and receive guidance. Thank you for organising this!”Manasvi · Government Medical College Goa

YOUR TURN

Start before you think you're ready.

You don't need a famous college, a family connection, or a research mentor in your contacts. You need a starting point.

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