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NAHP Core Research Skills course


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If you have already registered your place on the first course that was post-poned in September, you have automatically been added to this course, Saturday, 19th November. Please contact Emma if you wish to cancel your place.

Saturday  19th November 2022

Programme

09:00 to 16:30 hours

Course directors: Miss. R Magboo, Mrs. Z Khanbhai, Mrs. N Bhudia and Miss. H Chavan
CPD points: 5 points with certificate

Course aimed at Nurses, Allied health professionals, Surgical care practitioners, Operating department practitioners, Physiotherapist and Foundation Doctors.

Course fee:

  • £20 refundable depsosit required for SCTS NAHP Members. To secure your place, please add a ticket to your account where you will be asked to pay a £20 deposit via PayPal.
  • £60 for Non SCTS members. 
  • Non-attendees will not be refunded.
  • To become an SCTS member, please click here
  • New SCTS members will receive a refund if application is completed before the course starts.
  • International non-members are welcome to join us on reduced rate to access all the courses free of cost.

Programme

08:45

Registration

 

Session 1

Moderators

Mr Akshay Patel (Associate Surgical Specialty Lead for Thoracic Research) & Ms Nisha Bhudia (Lead Pharmacist, Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals; SCTS Audit lead)

09:00

Introduction (Quiz)

Mrs Nisha Bhudia

09:10 – 09:40

What is research?

Difference of research, service evaluation and QI

Mr Shahzad Raja

(Cardiac surgeon, Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals)

09:45 – 10:15

Searching and critiquing the literature

Ms Tracey Bowden

Senior Lecturer, City University of London

10:15 – 10:30

Coffee Break

 

Session 2

Moderators

Ms Kristia Basilio (Senior Staff Nurse, St Bartholomew’s Hospital)

& Mr George Gradinariu (Surgical trainee, Glasgow)

10:35 – 11:00

PPI in research and Role of PI

Establishing connections and maintaining PPI

Ms Sarah Murray (Chair, National PPI Group)

11:05 – 11:30

Applying for ethical approval

Mrs Margaret Hutchinson

(Approval Specialist, Health Research Authority)

11:35 – 12:15

Introduction to statistics

 Dr Stavroula Kanoni

(Reader in Nutrigenetics and Cardiovascular Health, Queen Mary University of London)

12:15 – 12:45

Lunch Break

 

Session 3

Moderators

Ms Anna Gesicka (CICU Lead, University Hospital Sussex) & Mr Jean-Paul Evagelista (Matron, University Hospital Southampton) 

12:50 – 13:30

Introduction to research methods

 

  • Quantitative Research Methods

 

  • Qualitative Research Methods

 

Prof Julie Sanders

(Director Clinical Research, St Bartholomew’s Hospital) 

Dr Shiela O’Keefe-McCarthy

(Associate Professor, Brock University, Canada)

13:35 – 14:05

Introduction to clinical trials

 

Mr Marius Roman

(Academic Clinical Lecturer in Cardiac Surgery, Glenfield Hospital)

14:05 –

14:35

Overview of Clinical trials in cardiothoracic and congenital surgery

Mr Bil Kirmani

(Cardiac surgeon, Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital)

14:35 – 14:55

Coffee Break

 

Session 4

Moderators

Mr Ankan Paul

(Clinical Fellow in Cardiac Surgery, St Bartholomew’s Hospital)

Mrs Rosalie Magboo

(SCTS Research Lead)

15:00 – 15:30

Writing an abstract

Prof Suzanne Fredericks

(Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, Canada)

15:30 – 16:00

Disseminating Research Results

Dr Britt Borregaard

(Associate Editor, European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing)

 16:00 – 16:15

Quiz and closure

Ms Rosalie Magboo

SCTS Research Lead

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Please note that for members of SCTS a £20 deposit will be refunded at the end of the course.

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