We teach, and we convene. Six courses, three weeks each — every one ends with something in your hands: a submission-ready synopsis, an analysed dataset and a manuscript, a registered review protocol, a completed UK registration file, an assessed clinical competency. Not a certificate of attendance. An artefact you can use.
The rule we teach by
Most research training in Pakistan teaches a syllabus and issues a certificate. Three weeks later the participant is exactly where they started. We build every course backwards from a deliverable. You arrive with a problem — a synopsis that keeps getting bounced, a dataset that has sat untouched for two years, a promotion blocked for want of a publication — and you leave with the thing that unblocks it.
Our courses do not lead to our journals
Link Medical Interface publishes journals and teaches people to write papers. In most organisations that is a conflict of interest, and we treat it as one. Our training is journal-agnostic. Completing any LMI course confers no advantage whatsoever at any LMI journal — no preferential review, no expedited handling, no fee waiver, no improved prospect of acceptance. Our editors are not told who has taken a course, and would not act on it if they were. We teach journal selection as a module, including how to identify predatory journals and how to check whether a title is actually recognised before you submit — and applied honestly, that module will often lead you away from our journals. Independence is what makes the training worth having.
The six courses
1. Synopsis and Protocol Design
For FCPS-II trainees, MPhil and MS scholars, and final-year DPT students whose synopsis keeps coming back without explanation. Week 1: research question, PICO, study design, feasibility, sample size. Week 2: methods, sampling, variables, operational definitions, data collection plan. Week 3: ethics file, trial registration, reference management, final review. You leave with a submission-ready synopsis, a completed ethics application, and a shortlist of target journals.
2. Data to Published Paper
For anyone who has finished collecting data and has no paper to show for it. There are thousands of dead datasets in this country — studies completed, participants recruited, and then nothing. Week 1: data cleaning, coding, descriptive statistics, choosing the right test, checking assumptions. Week 2: inferential analysis, tables with confidence intervals, effect sizes and odds ratios, figures. Week 3: IMRaD writing, the discussion, the cover letter, journal selection, submission. You leave with an analysed dataset, clean tables, and a submission-ready manuscript.
3. Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
For faculty facing HEC promotion criteria and trainees who cannot run a prospective study. Week 1: framing the question, PRISMA, search strategy, databases, screening. Week 2: data extraction, risk of bias, quality appraisal. Week 3: RevMan, forest plots, heterogeneity, writing it up, PROSPERO registration. You leave with a registered PROSPERO protocol and a completed search and screening.
4. HCPC UK Registration and Proficiency Mapping
For physiotherapists and allied health professionals in Pakistan and the Gulf who intend to register in the UK. The rules changed in November 2025, and most guidance still circulating describes the old process. Where a gap is found in your mapping, you are now referred to a test of competency rather than asked for more documents. Week 1: the route, eligibility, documents, and what the mapping requirement actually demands. Week 2: mapping your qualifications and experience against each standard of proficiency, and writing evidence that holds. Week 3: English test strategy, UK-format CV, the NHS job landscape, interview preparation. You leave with a completed, defensible mapping document and a UK-format CV. Taught by Dr. Bilal Umar, HCPC-registered (PH143142).
5. Dry Needling and IMS — Clinical Certification
For practising physiotherapists. Hybrid: two weeks online, one weekend in person in Lahore. Week 1: pain science, trigger points, the evidence base, safety, contraindications, consent. Week 2: region-by-region anatomy, needling rationale, managing adverse events. Week 3: supervised hands-on practice and competency assessment. You leave with an assessed clinical competency certificate. The cohort is capped so the instructor can actually see what your hands are doing. Taught by Dr. Bilal Umar, whose doctoral research examined dry needling combined with electrical stimulation for post-stroke spasticity.
6. Research Integrity and Responsible AI Use
For individuals, and for universities as faculty development. Week 1: authorship, plagiarism, data integrity, and what actually triggers institutional proceedings. Week 2: predatory versus recognised journals, and how HEC, PMDC, and Scopus actually evaluate a title. Week 3: responsible AI in research — what is acceptable, what must be disclosed, how to write a disclosure statement, how to draft departmental policy. You leave with a personal AI-use disclosure template and a departmental integrity SOP. Available as an institutional cohort.
Institutional training
Courses 3 and 6 in particular are bought by departments rather than individuals — a faculty cohort under promotion pressure, or a department that needs an AI-use policy and has nobody to write one. We deliver on site, to a single institution, adapted to its own criteria and its own regulatory position.
What we do not promise
We do not guarantee publication. No course, anywhere, can. What we can do is get your manuscript to a condition where the decision turns on your science rather than on your formatting, your statistics, or your inability to answer Reviewer 2.
We do not guarantee HCPC registration, ethics approval, or PROSPERO acceptance. Those decisions belong to the HCPC, to ethics committees, and to PROSPERO. We prepare you to meet their requirements. We do not decide them.
Certificates state what they are. A certificate of completion says you completed the course. A competency certificate says your competency was assessed. We do not currently hold CPD accreditation from a regulator, and we do not claim CPD credits; whether an activity counts toward your continuing professional development is a matter for your own regulator. We are pursuing accreditation and will say so plainly — naming the body and the date — when we hold it.
Conferences
We have convened one international conference, and we intend to convene more. The 1st International Conference on Integrated Care for Chronic Diseases (ICIC 2024) was held online in May 2024. Around 500 people attended, around 50 presented, and every accepted abstract was published in a dedicated issue of the Journal of Health and Rehabilitation Research and assigned a DOI — which meant that for several international delegates, their presentation counted toward a degree requirement at their own institution. See the conference record.
Scheduling
Courses run as cohorts on fixed dates. Fees are announced with each cohort. Register your interest and we will notify you when the next cohort in your area opens, with the dates, the fee, and the cap. Write to cpd@lmi.education.