Research for the Specialty Trainee (2-Day) (PSk24APR24)

Joining Instructions

Programme & Timetable

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Multiday courses

This is a multiday course. The attendance requirements for multiday courses are:

You must secure rota coordinator agreement for the time off for all course days before booking and follow the study leave process

Attendance at all sessions is required in order to complete the course and be awarded a participation certificate

If your availability changes before the course and you know that you will be unable to attend one or more sessions, you must cancel your place as soon as possible

If you are absent from day 1 of the course, you will be withdrawn from the remainder of the course

Booking cancellation

Delegates must make every effort to attend courses they have booked. If your availability changes after booking, please cancel your place through Maxcourse as soon as possible. This will release the place for colleagues on the waiting list.

If you need to cancel within 1 week of the course or the course has started and you are not able to attend, please email england.LSFDcourses@nhs.net to give your apologies.

Mandatory: Dentist, or Doctor

An understanding of study design is necessary for doctors to evaluate existing research evidence and to conduct their own research. This is advocated in the GMC document ‘Promoting excellence: standards for medical education and training’ (2015), which states that medical graduates must be able to apply scientific methods and approaches to medical research.

This course will provide the Specialty Trainee with a broad overview of the relevance and application of research in the clinical setting. It will aim to increase knowledge of

using quantitative and qualitative research study designs to answer health related questions that are important to both the NHS and the patient.

Delegates will be given time to formulate their own research questions and develop an outline proposal that could be undertaken, as a research project (or adapted for an audit or service evaluation), within their clinical setting.

The course will cover:

• How research is used in the NHS to improve outcomes

• Interpreting the evidence and applying it in clinical practice

• Key considerations when developing a research proposal

o Deciding if it is research, audit, service evaluation or quality improvement

o Defining a research question that is relevant and addresses a gap in evidence

o Finding information on completed and ongoing research

o Selecting the most appropriate method to answer a specific research question (overview of quantitative and qualitative methods)

o Overview of basic statistical concepts relevant to clinical research

o Feasibility of conducting the study (cost, recruitment, timescale etc)

o Costing a clinical research proposal and role of NHS R&D

o Involvement of patients and the public

o Importance of equality, diversity and inclusion in clinical research

o Collaborating with others (clinical, methodologists, users, industry)

o Ethical considerations – key principles around informed consent, GDPR and how to make an application and working with vulnerable participants

o How to maximise the impact of your research

• Sources of funding for:

o research proposals

o career development opportunities

• Sources of support for the development of clinical research in the UK through NHS R&D and NIHR Infrastructure.

• An understanding of the fundamental principles of defining a research question.

• The ability to define the critical issues in the design of a research study, utilising

quantitative and qualitative methodology, with an emphasis of choosing the most appropriate design to answer the question.

• An overview of key statistical concepts such as randomisation, sample size, treatment effect and choosing outcome measures.

• An awareness of the ethical issues involved in research.

• Information on when and how to apply for research ethics and governance approval.

• Guidance on appraising research results reported in the medical literature and

applying the evidence within the context of the NHS.

• An overview of the current and future sources of funding for Specialty Trainee.

• The ability to apply the learning to develop an outline of a clinical research

project.