This WSO
Training Workshop took place on 26th May 2017 the day before the Tianfu Stroke
Conference and was organised
by Professors Ming Liu and Shihong Zhang and their team from the West China
Hospital Chengdu. The workshop was attended by 56 clinicians, all in the early
stage of their research careers and with an interest in clinical stroke
research.
The WSO Faculty members were Professor Ming Liu,
Professor Craig Anderson, and the other Faculty were Professors Hisatomi Arima,
Shihong Zhang, and Jie Yang.
The focus of the workshop was on epidemiological and
clinical (bedside) research and the topics were: ‘Common methods in stroke
clinical research’, ‘First steps in research: what training do you need,
raising a good research question, and choosing the correct research design’,
‘How to enhance the quality of clinical registries’, ‘How to find causal
associations in observational studies’, ‘Propensity score analysis,’ ‘Ordinal
shift analysis’, ‘Systematic reviews & network meta-analysis’, How to write
a scientific paper and get it published, How to critique a scientific paper:
perspective from reviewers, How to write a funding application, ‘Real-world
evidence’: how to apply in practice.
The workshop involved interactive tasks and there was
very active discussion of each topic, with Faculty members being asked
supplementary questions during the breaks. Feedback on the course was very
positive.
