Clinical research

 

What is Clinical Research, its importance, and how do I start?

An important article about research after it was requested by many followers, and in this article we will try to cover all the important aspects of it, and to learn more about the American equation and its conditions, you can read the following article , and if you want to know more about our available courses and the most important features that we offer, you can see this article .

What does research mean?

Clinical research is experiments of written theories or hypotheses, and the application of these theories on the ground to real patients, so that we can discover whether this theory is true or false, or correct in what percentage!

The importance of research:

1- Strengthening the CV: One of the most important things in the research is that it strengthens your CV, especially if you intend to travel, and its importance has increased in the USMLE, especially after the recent adjustments in the equation. It is important to have an idea about research and be able to start with it.

2- The Experience: It is very important to know that the thing you are going to do a research on is not its purpose, but that you write it in the CV or your name is published in a specific magazine.

3- Forming relationships: This is an important point, because the nature of our work requires you to have relationships with many people in order to benefit them and benefit you, and to exchange experiences together.

How do you start research and what resources do you learn from?

In order to get started, you first need to learn what research means and how to do research, and we will discuss this in the rest of the article.

Types of research?

First: Primary Research

This means that you do a direct research on the eyes. If there is any kind of intervention, it will be called a clinical trial. If you just describe what you see, it will be called an observational study, and this has many subtypes, such as a case report, for example (and it is a rare or interesting case that you see in The clinic or department takes its entire history and writes what you saw and presents it in a manner suitable for the guidelines of the magazine that will be sent to it.

Second: Secondary Research 

This includes systematic review and meta-analysis, which means that you get an idea and collect all the studies you did about it, put it in one study and talk about it.

The easiest to publish and the most widespread?

The first thing about case reports: She needs to learn scientific writing, her course, Scientific writing course from Stanford, on Coursera for free.

The second thing about Systematic review and meta analysis: The course is Cochrane’s course and is available for free in most countries

The third thing is cross sectional studies and multicentric studies, and these are studies that are being done in such and such a country, and they still need people from every country to participate with them in collecting the data.

The fourth thing is basic biostatistics: this course is Introduction to Biostatistics by Stanford, it is available on Coursera and on the portal of Stanford University.

The fifth thing is the research design: you can listen to it on YouTube

Sixth and finally, of course, a little reading of how to validate research idea and how to search data basis so that you can look for an idea and know how to read any paper.

Some books to learn the basics of research?

 Medical Statistics Made Easy

 The Craft of Research

 Scientific Writing from A to Z by Tim Albert

 Introduction to Meta-analysis

How do I start research?

The issue is personal and there is no rule. The important thing is that you have the basics that make you talk to all the people in your circle and the young guys like you and join groups in international projects. They see your level and what you did in the research before that, and then you work with them and collect data from the place where you are.

And of course, you have to limit your potential and the capabilities of the place, for example, don't go to search for a clinical trial or go to suggest a clinical trial, you need money, time, and even more capabilities than a student on a senior doctor.

The best are the multicentric opportunities, and then you see a group doing a systematic review and continue with it, or you see a doctor in your college who works with students and participate with him, or you get an easy opportunity and suggest it to one of the doctors who cooperates with students close to his specialization.