This session deals with the critical appraisal of a key randomised controlled trial. The study concerns two treatments for the management of hand lacerations…
There are so many different ways you could research a topic that you’re interested in, how on earth do you choose between them all? Below, we give you a brief overview of the different research …
Have you been thinking about the fantastic opportunities that being involved in academic Emergency Medicine (EM) has to offer?…
I am not the person who any of my medical school colleagues would have pegged for academia. I won’t share the contents of the yearbook entry about me, it’s too embarrassing. Suffice to say…
First, make sure your protocol is pinned down as far as possible; it’s a good idea to liaise with R&D for this.…
What is TERN…
Coffee is the tonic that most of medicine and research revolves around. You only need to join the queue at your hospital coffee shop to understand the bond between healthcare and coffee.…
This annual award is made at the RCEM Emergency Medicine (EM) Research Engagement Day, previously known as the Clinical Studies Group Day. It is awarded to recognise outstanding contributions towards …
I am a Professor of Emergency Medicine employed at the University of Sheffield. I hold an Honorary contract with Barnsley Hospital Foundation NHS Trust where I undertake my clinical work and am also t…
This is the second in a series of blog posts intended to demystify the process of getting started in research. In it we focus on the all-important topic of research funding why you need it, where to …
It’s Friday evening and you’re at work in the ED (where else would you rather be??). Jack is a 15 year old boy who has taken an overdose of paracetamol a couple of hours ago. He texted his…
Patient and public involvement or PPI is an integral part of research in medicine. It is increasingly a mandatory requirement to have conducted PPI as part of any research proposal for the major fundi…
You are reading a paper about the effect of tranexamic acid for patients who have suffered major trauma…
You are reading a paper about a new blood test called myocyte necrosis factor, to diagnose Acute Coronary Syndrome…
Persistence wasn’t the message I expected to leave with after a meeting with Cliff Mann. Sitting and discussing TERN with the previous President of the Royal College, is a long way from data col…
Research in Emergency Medicine ranges in scale and complexity and covers a wide spectrum of subjects, all of which contribute to our overall knowledge base…
Producing practice-changing research via a network that doesn’t exist, using trainees without any research experience, in a time when Emergency Medicine is under significant clinical strain is a…
I’m Rick Body – a dad, a husband, a terrible and ageing Sunday league footballer, an even worse church organist, a doctor, an emergency physician, and – although I still don’t …
Looking back, I had fallen in love with the academic world long before I even started to consider medicine as a career. Graduating from high school in my home town of Berlin in Germany, I was 100% com…
Welcome to a series of articles about getting started in research. We are two jobbing emergency physicians in the East Midlands with no particular academic background but lots of enthusiasm.…
