Preparing and Designing Your Research Study or Case Report

Course overview

This course will describe a step-by-step process clinical practitioners can use to prepare and start their research projects. The course will include discussion of ethics/institutional review board requirements for clinical research, when trial registration is needed, and how to register a trial/case series. The process of preparing and reporting case studies, and the key ingredients needed to present or publish those, will be reviewed. Finally, the process of writing adequate research questions to guide methodology and design of a study will be explained.