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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