The Clinical Research Course For Medical Students 

This lesson will discuss the preliminary stages of building a research project, including the following topics:

• What are the different study designs?
• What is a research question?
• How to evaluate research ideas?
• How To Find Research Ideas?
• How To Perform A Quick Literature Review?
• How To Perform A Detailed Literature Review?
• What Is The IRB?
• How to submit an IRB?

Total video length without quizzes and exercises: 1 h 50 min

This lesson will focus on how to build a variable list for your research project and what you need to do prior to collecting data, including the following topics:

• Finding the patients
• Identifying the variable list
• Choosing the definitions
• Identifying the team
• Identifying the tasks
• Identifying authorship
• Collecting the data

Total video length without quizzes and exercises: 1 h 35 min

This lesson will discuss how to prepare and interpret your data, including the following topics

• Cleaning the data
• How to make the job of your statistician easier?
• Interpreting categorical data
• Interpreting continuous data

Total video length without quizzes and exercises: 40 min

Manuscript writing does not have to be daunting. This lesson will go over strategies to help you plan and optimize the manuscript writing process.

Total video length without quizzes and exercises: 18 min

This lesson will discuss the details of how to write the introduction section of the manuscript, including the following topics:

• The outline
• Examples of well-written and poorly written introductions
• Efficiency in writing
• An example of how to start with a draft and the subsequent changes made
• Verb tense
• The gap in knowledge
• The study hypothesis
• Linking words
• Reference managers
• Plagiarism and grammar checks

Total video length without quizzes and exercises: 1 h 6 min

This lesson will discuss how to write the methods section of the research paper, including the following topics:

• What to include in the methods section
• Tips for writing the methods
• The statistical analysis paragraph of the methods
• Discussion of the methods section using 4 study examples

Total video length without quizzes and exercises: 47 min

This lesson will discuss the details of how to write the results section of the research paper, including the following topics:

• How to create your tables
• Discussion of tables using study examples
• Figures (bar graphs, box plots, Kaplan-Meier curves)
• What to include in the results section
• Tips for writing the results section
• Discussion of the results section using two study examples
• Commonly used verbs and phrases in the results section

Total video length without quizzes and exercises: 54 min

This lesson will discuss how to write the discussion section of the research paper, including the following topics:

• The structure of the discussion section and tips for writing an effective discussion.
• The opening paragraph
• Comparison to prior literature (similarities and differences)
• Summarizing prior studies
• Paraphrasing
• Interpretation of your study results
• Implications of your research findings
• Limitations of your study
• Future directions
• Study conclusion
• Discussion of the above-mentioned points using several study examples

Total video length without quizzes and exercises: 1 h 38 min

This lesson will discuss the details on how to write the abstract for both research papers and conferences, including the following topics:

• Structured vs. unstructured abstracts
• Abstract section
• How to write an abstract
• Visual abstracts
• Conference abstracts

Total video length without quizzes and exercises: 51 min

Choosing the right journal is a critical step for your research project. Submission is also a long process, often requiring revision. This lesson will go over the submission process, including the following topics:

• Choosing the right journal.
• What if your manuscript is rejected?
• Responding to reviewers.

Total video length without quizzes and exercises: 57 min

Presenting your research at conferences is essential to increase the visibility of your science, share your findings with the scientific community, and network with clinicians and researchers. This lesson will focus on creating an effective poster presentation, including the following topics:

• Structure of a poster presentation
• Tips on how to create poster presentations
• Poster Examples
• New way of making posters
• How to present a poster
• Poster title
• Poster templates

Total video length without quizzes and exercises: 1 h 21 min

This lesson will discuss how to write a literature review from beginning to end, including the following topics:

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• Steps for writing a literature review
• Systematic review vs. comprehensive literature review
• Tips for writing a literature review
• Defining the question
• Literature search
• The outline
• Writing the introduction
• The structure of a paragraph
• How to write a paragraph for a literature review
• Multiple exercises and assignments

Total video length without quizzes and exercises: 1 h 33 min

This lesson will go over the process of peer review and how to write a peer review for a research article. The following topics will be discussed:

• Introduction to Peer Review
• How to get started?
• Assessing Research Articles
• Deciding to Accept or Reject a Manuscript
• Examples and Exercises

Total video length without quizzes and exercises: 30 min

This lesson will cover the secrets of being productive during a research year including a detailed discussion of the following:

• Efficiency
• Time management
• Multitasking
• Mentorship
• Teamwork
• Quantity vs. quality

Total video length without quizzes and exercises: 42 min