Dent 513 course, is a course given by the department of oral medicine and oral surgery for fifth year dental students . The course prepares students to acquire the basic knowledge and the primary skills in relation to conducting research in biomedical/dental fields and writing up a scientific publishable paper. In the practical part of the course, students are divided into groups. The supervisor guides the students into selecting a topic of interest and guides them to a research question. Students will develop a certain hypothesis and in a timely manner provided with data needed. In each weekly meeting, the faculty member will give a brief information (discussion or presentation format) about the requirements of each section of the paper to be written. These meeting are conducted in person. Furthermore, students will be provided with some feedback regarding their weekly task. By the end of the semester, students are required to submit a final coherent manuscript. The manuscript should include all the elements of a research paper (abstract, introduction, literature review, materials and methods, results, discussion, conclusion and references). The students will be evaluated in groups for every step they perform in the conduction of the project and for the final manuscript that they submit. In addition, the students will be evaluated individually through an online examination on the elements of research paper and abstract and on the basic principles and design of research. Moreover, there will an individual evaluation on the contribution of each student to the overall work.