The Department of Oral Pathology and Microbiology, MCODS, Manipal organized an institutional research initiative for post-graduate students on September 1 2017. The resource person for this program was Dr R Venkata Subramanyam Professor and Coordinator Department of OMFS and Diagnostic Sciences, College of Dentistry, King Faisal University, Al-Ahasa, Saudi Arabia. There were 2 sessions … one Research methodology simplified” and the other “ Writing a dissertation”. Sixty post- graduate students of all the specialties of dentistry participated in this program