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

Activity no.: 3761-19-00-00 
Enrollment deadline: 25/02/2019
Date and time25.03.2019, at: 08:00 - 09.04.2019, at: 16:00
Regular seats16
Course fee2,040.00 kr.
LecturersVibeke Backer 
hkr461 hkr461
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.

This course is free of charge for PhD students at Danish universities (except Copenhagen Business School), and for PhD students at graduate schools in the other Nordic countries. 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
4. Apply a reviewer’s perspective to your own research

Knowledge: Participants will understand the rationale and background 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 analyse 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 as per the Equator-network, such as PRISMA. Perspectives on peer review: the post-publication peer review and the significance of peer review to the public.

Participants
The course is mainly intended for PhD-students engaged in clinical research and preferably in the mid to final stages of their project. However, any PhD student with experience with writing a scientific paper can take part in the course.

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 programs.

Language
English.
If all participants are native Danish speakers, the course will be conducted din Danish.

Form
Lectures, discussions, group work, home 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; Martin Frendø, MD, PhD-fellow, Copenhagen Academy for Medical Education and Simulation and the Department of Otorhinolaryngology—Head & Neck Surgery, Rigshospitalet. E-mail: frendoe@hotmail.com.

Teachers
Martin Frendø, MD, PhD-fellow, Copenhagen Academy for Medical Education and Simulation and the Department of Otorhinolaryngology—Head & Neck Surgery, Rigshospitalet. E-mail: frendoe@hotmail.com.
Ebbe Thinggaard, MD, PhD, Postdoc, Copenhagen Academy for Medical Education and Simulation and Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, University Hospital Hvidovre, Denmark, E-mail: ebbe.thinggaard@gmail.com

Dates
25th of March and 9th of April 2019. Preparation includes a home assignment (approximately 8 hours) between the two course dates. Accordingly, participants must schedule time for this preparation between the first and second course days.

Course location
Bispebjerg Hospital, Copenhagen

Registration
Please register before February 25th

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.

Note: All applicants are asked to submit invoice details in case of no-show, late cancellation or obligation to pay the course fee (typically non-PhD students). If you are a PhD student, your participation in the course must be in agreement with your principal supervisor.

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