Author Description

This book is designed to be a helpful and succinct guide to clinical research. It provides an introduction to fundamental skills and sources of further references. The book will prompt you to consider your motivation for undertaking clinical research, guide you through choice of research project and/or degree, help with obtaining funding, and provide hints on adapting to a new environment. It will introduce you to important areas such as clinical study and trial design, ethical and research conduct issues, appropriate use of literature, relevant information technology matters, data collection, storage and statistical analysis. Finally, it will provide guidance on how to present research findings, with some hints on communication skills and writing manuscripts for publication.