The aims of this course are to help you:
- Understand the 'anatomy' of a scientific article
- Structure your own scientific article
- Review the work of others with some confidence
During the four days of the course, you will be taken through the four major elements of a datadriven scientific article: Background, Methods, Results, and Discussion.
We will focus on how to organise the materials for your article before you start the actual writing process. The course is designed to fit the reporting culture of medical quantitative studies, but the principles are largely the same for qualitative studies. Laboratory studies have the same elements as those taught in this course but may differ in sequence, e.g. the Methods section at the end of the article.
It is not a requirement to have completed your data analysis to structure a manuscript. In fact, it may be easier if you have not yet analysed your data.
The course comprises lectures, group and individual work, feedback, and peer review.
2.4 ECTS