Planning and designing research: clinical sciences
Research Skills
Friday, 29 November 2019, 9.30am to 12.30pm
Apply for this courseThis half day classroom based MSD Skills training course is suitable for all postgraduate research students and early career researchers wanting to make sure their clinical research project is rigorous and reproducible.
COURSE AIM
A series of talks and activities addressing the fundamentals of planning and conducting a reproducible clinical research project. To provide a grounding in the key steps and methods to ensure your clinical research project is relevant, rigorous, and reproducible.
COURSE CONTENT
Planning for success: involving patients, statisticians, and librarians to ensure your project is relevant, well formulated, and built on solid foundations
Making the most of institutional resources and support with your research
How to turn a research idea into an answerable question
The principles of study design and critical appraisal
Choosing the appropriate design and methods to answer a research question
Practical issues around writing and publishing a protocol.
Principles of statistical thinking: sampling, inference, probability, risk and uncertainty
How to organize and report statistical information
COURSE LENGTH
3 hours
NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS
Maximum 24