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How to get clinical research published - knowing the peer review process
Provider: Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences

Activity no.: 3761-17-00-00 
Enrollment deadline: 02/05/2017
Date and time15.05.2017, at: 08:00 - 30.05.2017, at: 16:00
Regular seats16
Course fee2,040.00 kr.
LecturersSteven Arild Wuyts Andersen
ECTS credits2.40
Contact personMarianne Bøje    E-mail address: marianne.boeje@regionh.dk
Enrolment Handling/Course OrganiserPhD administration     E-mail address: phdkursus@sund.ku.dk

Aim and content
This is a generic course. This means that the course is reserved for PhD students at the Graduate School of Health and Medical Sciences at UCPH. Anyone can apply for the course, but if you are not a PhD student at the Graduate School, you will be placed on the waiting list until enrollment deadline. After the enrolment deadline, available seats will be allocated to the waiting list.

The course is free of charge for PhD students at Danish universities (except Copenhagen Business School). Special rules apply for research year students enrolled at Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences at UCPH. All other participants must pay the course fee.

Course title
How to get clinical research published - knowing the peer review process

Learning objectives
A student who has met the objectives of the course will be able to:

1. Perform a peer review of a scientific paper using a systematic approach
2. Communicate the review to the editor and author
3. Critically discuss the ethics and limitations of peer review

Knowledge: Participants will understand the rationale for the peer review, gain knowledge on different aspects of the peer review process, and identify key issues in reviewing a paper.

Skills: Participants will be able to apply a systematic approach to peer reviewing, review a paper and communicate their review appropriately, and analyze and relate their knowledge on the peer review to their own projects and papers.

Competencies: Participants will be able to perform a peer review and assess others’ works, reflect on the peer review process, discuss the limitations of the peer review and put the peer review into perspective.

Content
Introduction to the peer review process and the rationale for peer review. Evidence for peer review and issues concerning for example bias, blinding and transparency, and conflicts of interests. Going “behind” the paper: evaluating the research question, originality, theoretical framework and presentation. A systematic approach to reviewing the core of the paper: the abstract, the introduction, the material and methods, the discussion and conclusion. A brief introduction to common statistical errors and pitfalls. Communicating the review constructively. Special considerations regarding qualitative research, the systematic review and guidelines such as CONSORT. Perspectives on peer review: the post-publication peer review and the significance of peer review to the public.

Participants
The course is intended for PhD-students engaged in clinical research and in the mid to last stages of their project. Participants are expected to have some experience with writing a scientific paper.

Relevance to graduate programmes
The course is relevant to PhD students from the following graduate programmes at the Graduate School of Health and Medical Sciences, UCPH:

All graduate programmes

Language
English
English or Danish. Note that all courses have to be provided in English if required by non-Danish participants.

Form
Lectures, discussions, group work, written assignment, oral presentations and hands-on exercises.

Course director
Vibeke Backer, professor, MD, DMSc, Department of Respiratory Medicine, Bispebjerg Hospital. E-mail: backer@dadlnet.dk; Steven Andersen, MD, PhD, postdoc, Copenhagen Academy for Medical Education and Simulation and the Department of Otorhinolaryngology—Head & Neck Surgery, Rigshospitalet. E-mail: stevenarild@gmail.com.

Teachers
Steven Andersen, MD, PhD, postdoc, Copenhagen Academy for Medical Education and Simulation, and the Department of Otorhinolaryngology—Head & Neck Surgery, Rigshospitalet; Martin Grønnebæk Tolsgaard, MD, PhD, Copenhagen Academy for Medical Education and Simulation, and the Dept. of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, Juliane Marie Centret, Rigshospitalet.

Dates
15+30 May 2017. Preparation includes a written assignment (approximately 8 hours) between the two course dates.

Course location
Bispebjerg Hospital

Registration
Please register before 2 May 2017.

Seats to PhD students from other Danish universities will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis and according to the applicable rules.
Applications from other participants will be considered after the last day of enrolment.

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