Research Methodology

The skills that make research possible are learnable, and most trainees were never formally taught them. This page will grow into a structured set of guides.

Planned guides

• Turning a clinical question into an answerable research question.
• Choosing a study design that matches the question.
• Biostatistics for the non-statistician: what to compute, what to report.
• Critical appraisal: reading a paper in thirty minutes and knowing if you can trust it.
• Scientific writing: abstracts, introductions and the anatomy of a publishable case report.
• Research ethics: consent, approval and what ethics committees actually look for.

Each guide will be dated, attributed and reviewed before publication.