How to write a research paper • Reporting statistical methods and analyses • The results: reporting all findings succinctly • Scientific transparency: the pitfalls of selective reporting • The discussion: using structure and balance • Optimizing the abstract and title
The essentials of running a clinical trial
• Course overview and trial designs • Selection of participants • Recruitment • Choosing the interventions and controls • Randomization • Blinding • Outcome measures • Assessing safety • Adherence and complete follow up • Ethical issues in clinical trials • Regulatory issues • How to write up industry-sponsored trials
Picking the right journal and getting published
Avoiding scientific misconduct
• Scientific misconduct, authorship and conflict of interest • Reporting conflicts of interest • Journal rules on authorship • How and why to avoid plagiarism • How journals uncover scientific fraud • How journals act on scientific misconduct
• Navigating journal and peer review processes • Compliance with journal and ICMJE requirements • Patients' consent for publication • Surviving peer review • What to do with rejections and appeals • Pre-submission inquiries and cover letters
World-class educators
The modules are written and presented by some of the foremost experts in research and publication, including several co-authors of the seminal textbook Designing Clinical Research. All the educators are published authors in their own right and include:
Prof Deborah Grady, Associate Dean of Clinical and Translational Research at UCSF
Dr Trish Groves, Associate editor, The BMJ, and Editorial consultant
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