Data collection, database development and quality control: guidance for clinical research studies -- The role of computers and the type of computing skills required in surgery -- Computational and statistical methodologies for data mining in bioinformatics -- The use of Bayesian networks in decision-making -- A Bayesian framework for assessing new surgical health technologies -- Systematic reviews and meta-analyses in surgery -- Decision analysis -- Cost-effectiveness analysis -- Value of information analysis -- Methodological framework for evaluation and prevention of publication bias in surgical studies -- Graphs in statistical analysis -- Questionnaires, surveys, scales in surgical research: concepts and methodology -- How to perform analysis of survival data in surgery -- Risk stratification and prediction modeling in surgery -- The principles and role of medical imaging in surgery -- How to read a paper -- How to evaluation the quality of the published literature -- How to write a surgical paper -- A primer for grant applications -- Key aspects of grant applications: the surgical viewpoint -- How to organize an educational research program within an academic surgical unit -- How to structure an academic lecture -- How to write a book proposal -- How to organize a surgical meeting: national and international -- Presentation skills in surgery
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Internet research resources for surgeons -- Clinical practice guidelines in surgery -- From idea to bedside: the process of surgical invention and innovation -- Research governance and research funding in the USA: what the academic surgeon needs to know -- Research governance in the USA: what the academic surgeon needs to know -- Research funding, applying for grants and research budgeting in the UK: what the academic surgeon needs to know -- How to enhance development and collaboration in surgical research -- Mentoring in academic surgery -- Leadership in academic surgery -- Using skills from art in surgical practice and research: surgery and art -- Administration of the academic Department of Surgery -- Information transfer and communication in surgery: a need for improvement -- General surgery: current trends and recent innovations -- Upper gastrointestinal surgery: current trends and recent innovations -- Colorectal cancer surgery: current trends and recent innovations -- Urology: current trends and recent innovations -- Cardiothoracic surgery: current trends and recent innovations -- Vascular surgery: current trends and recent innovations -- Breast surgery: current trends and recent innovations -- Thyroid surgery: current trends and recent innovations -- Orthopedic surgery: current trends and recent innovations -- Plastic, reconstructive and aesthetic surgery: current trends and recent innovations -- Neurosurgery: current trends and recent innovations -- Molecular techniques in surgical research -- Molecular carcinogenesis
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The role of surgical research -- Evidence-based surgery -- The role of the academic surgeon in the evaluation of healthcare assessment -- Study design, statistical inference and literature search in surgical research -- Randomized controlled trials: what the surgeon needs to know -- Monitoring trial effects -- How to recruit patients in surgical studies -- Diagnostic tests and diagnostic accuracy in surgery -- Research in surgical education: a primer -- Measurement of surgical performance for delivery of a competency-based training curriculum -- Health-related quality of life and its measurement in surgery: concepts and methods -- Surgical performance under stress: conceptual and methodological issues -- How can we assess quality of care in surgery? -- Patient satisfaction in surgery -- How to measure inequality in health care delivery -- The role of volume-outcome relationship in surgery -- An introduction to animal research -- The ethics of animal research -- Ethical issues in surgical research -- Principles and methods in qualitative research -- Safety in surgery -- Safety and hazards in surgical research -- Fraud in surgical research: a framework of action is required -- A framework is required to reduce publication bias: the academic surgeon's view