Nature Research Academies – Clinical Research Methodology

Academy in Clinical Research Methodology

Understanding the elements of robust research methodology is essential to any researcher in order to avoid problems such as research waste, manuscript rejections and/or long peer-review process.

Nature Research Academies has developed this 1-day interactive workshop in ‘Clinical Research Methodology’ to provide clinicians with tools and strategies to write solid research protocols and avoid common problems in data collection and analysis.

• 1-day workshops
• Available to institutions globally, to host on-site
• For up to 50 clinical researchers

Feedback from participants

“It is very useful for me to understand publication strategies and how to design and write clinical research papers.”

“This is a wonderful workshop! Dr. Robens used a lot of examples and activities to help us understand, so I feel I learned many useful skills.”

Academy content

• Planning a clinical study
  • Identifying a strong research problem
  • Assessing the quality of your research question
  • Deciding the right outcomes to measure
• Appropriately sampling your participants
  • Performing a power calculation
  • Deciding inclusion and exclusion criteria for participant selection
  • Recruitment methods that avoid sampling bias
• Choosing the right study design
  • Pyramid of clinical relevance
  • Strengths and weaknesses of study designs
  • Designing a randomized controlled trial
  • Choosing the right control
• Avoiding common biases
  • Most common biases in clinical studies
  • Strategies to avoid those biases
• Properly collecting and analyzing data
  • Managing data
  • Handling missing data
  • Performing multiple comparisons
  • Clinical vs. statistical relevance

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