The Research Clinic: A Doctor’s Journey from Question to Publication
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Diagnostic Accuracy Studies: Sensitivity, Specificity, Predictive Values and the Gold Standard
Dr. Sumaira Talib’s supervisor hands her a classic CPSP title: diagnostic accuracy of ultrasound in acute appendicitis, taking histopathology as the gold…
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Quasi-Experimental Studies: How to Evaluate an Intervention When You Cannot Randomise
The hospital is opening an adherence counselling desk in the medicine OPD, and the Medical Superintendent wants Dr. Junaid Rashid to tell…
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Randomised Controlled Trials: Randomisation, Allocation Concealment, Blinding and Trial Registration
Dr. Hammad Ali brings his first trial synopsis in a plastic sleeve: odd and even dates for allocation, pain scored by himself,…
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Cohort Study Design: How to Follow Patients Forward and Calculate Relative Risk
Dr. Junaid Rashid arrives early with a blue-pen timeline he drew himself, and it turns out to be a cohort study. In…
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Reference Managers and Citation Styles: EndNote, Zotero, Mendeley, Vancouver and Harvard
Dr. Hammad Ali spends forty-seven minutes typing eleven references in three different styles, and his supervisor stops reading at the reference list.…
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How to Write Research Objectives and a Hypothesis: The Blueprint of Your Study
Dr. Bushra Fatima’s synopsis has one specific objective: “to find the outcomes.” In this post of The Research Clinic, she learns to…
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How to Search PubMed the Right Way: MeSH Terms, Boolean Operators and AI
Dr. Hammad Ali searches for research on Google and YouTube, and Dr. Zunaira Malik drowns in tens of thousands of PubMed results.…
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Is Your Research Topic Doable? The FINER Test Every Trainee Should Run
A good research question can still be the wrong project. In this post of The Research Clinic, Dr. Hassan Raza learns that…
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Starting From the End: The Detective’s Study Design
Learn how to design a case-control study, the “detective” approach in Epidemiology, to uncover risk factors behind disease. This guide explains case-control…
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The Photograph That Cannot Lie, and Cannot Explain
A cross-sectional study is the ideal design when your research question asks, “How common is this?” It provides a snapshot in time,…