Academy in Clinical Research Methodology
This workshop is available to be delivered face-to-face or virtually.
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
- 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
- Discusses how to properly choose a research question that is necessary for the field
- Reviews efficient literature searching strategies and how to stay up-to-date
- Discusses focusing the research problem in a manageable and realistic manner
- Reviews different primary and secondary outcomes related to the research question that should be the focus of the study
- Choosing the right study design
- Covers how to identify which study design is appropriate for the research problem and outcome
- Briefly introduces systematic reviews, randomized controlled trials (RCTs), cohort studies, case-controlled studies, cross-sectional studies, and case reports/series
- Highlights the advantages and limitations of the above that should be considered
- Discusses RCTs given their important impact in clinical research
- Avoiding common biases in your study design
- Emphasizes the importance of a robust study design to increase the chance of publication as well as clinical impact
- Discusses a number of common biases in clinical studies, such as selection bias, measurement bias, attrition bias, and selective reporting and publishing bias
- Reviews strategies to minimize these biases in the study to improve the overall robustness of the research study
- Collecting and analyzing data
- Discusses how to effectively collect data during the study and how to properly manage all files to ensure that they are easily accessible and understandable
- Reviews how to store the data both during and after the study that will be essential during or after publication
- Reviews some available data repositories that can help researchers achieve long-term secure archiving
