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Learning Curves

Pearls and Perils

in Dermatologic Research

by Dr. Camille Berenguer-Angeles, FPDS

he first PDS-CME activity for the Event PDS- CME
year 2020 was hosted by the PDS
TResearch Committee. To start off Date January 29, 2020
the meeting Dr. Charmaine Castillo, PDS Venue Lung Center Auditorium, Lung Center of the Philippines
Secretary, presented this year’s Consultant Moderator Bryan K. Guevara
staff and residents of the 11 accredited PDS
Institutions. Next on stage was Dr. Vanessa Welcome Remarks Camille Angeles
Carpio, Chair of the PDS Health Information Case Presenters / Lecturers Charm Castillo
System Task Force. She enumerated the Vanessa Carpio
current goal of HIS; (1) disease trends
for policy and decision making for public Czarina Pineda-Chavez
health; (2) health care operations; and (3) Mara Evangelista-Huber
patient logs for accreditation of training
institutions and residents. Dr. Carpio also Reactors N/A
showed the top 10 diseases logged in for Total Number of Attendees
the year 2019. Total number of patients
seen for 2019 was 54,850, based on on site 165
the census of the following Institutions: webcast 250
EAMC, JRMMC, OMMC, RITM, SCFI, with
UST, UERM and SLMC contributing to an
extent. The following institutions stopped online learning platform (Kahoot!). The 2) There are too many tests done on the
recording their census in HIS since 2018: winners of the game were Dr. Felina Dy data (multiplicity), and 3) The data cannot
MMC, SPMC and PGH. (1st place), Dr. R-jay Agbon (2nd place), be replicated. Dr. Huber closed the lecture
both residents of SLMC, and Dr. Crystal reminding us to “Trust, but verify”, an
The main event of the CME started with Retuya from SCF. The next speaker, Dr. important task for every evidence-based
Dr. Czarina Pineda-Chavez giving us a Mara Evangelista-Huber passionately dermatologist. The lectures during this
lecture filled with pearls on research study delivered a timely, interesting lecture CME event help us to determine the
designs. Keeping it simple and easy to focused on the perils of misleading and appropriate study design suited for our
understand, she focused on differentiating misrepresented research entitled, “Bad research question and encourages us to
the 2 main types of study designs: data, Bad science.” She discussed 3 red appraise and analyze published clinical
descriptive and analytical, and discussed flags when hearing about a scientific data. One must realize that as one of
those that were more commonly used research or breakthrough: 1) There is not the pillars of the PDS, research plays an
in clinical research. Adding a bit of fun, enough data (particularly in supplements important role in delivering the best
the audience were able to participate by or cosmeceuticals where laboratory data care and management to our patients –
answering questions via a game-based is not yet supported with clinical data), making us truly the DermAuthority.

The two speakers for
the PDS-CME being awarded
their certificates of
appreciation for giving such
outstanding lectures.
(from left to right)
Drs. Chitiina de-Ocampo San-
tiago, CME Committee Chair,
Nancy Garcia-Tan, Academic
Cluster Head, Mara Evange-
lista-Huber, Peachy Paz-Lao, Winners of the Kahoot! game, holding up their
prize from the PDS Research Committee.
Czarina Pineda-Chavez, Camille Drs. Felina Dy and R-jay Agbon (SLMC) and
Berenguer-Angeles, Research
Committee Chair. Dr. Crystal Retuya (SCF)

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