This informative series by Trisha Greenhalgh in the BMJ is available as free full text – it starts from vol 315 pg 180, 1997. Topics covered include The Medline database, Statistics for the non-statistician, Papers that report drug trials, Papers that report diagnostic or screening tests, and so on.
This free, web-based course presents information about the rights and welfare of human participants in research. The two-hour tutorial is designed for those conducting research involving human participants. It satisfies the NIH human subjects training requirement for obtaining Federal Funds. You will have the option of printing a certificate of completion from your computer upon completion.
International Committee of Medical Journal Editors - Uniform Requirements - Updated February 2007
The Vancouver Group has evolved into the International Committee of
Medical Journal Editors which
has broadened its concerns from just uniform requirements for manuscript preparation, to include ethical principles related to publication in biomedical journals. This PDF document includes matters such as authorship, conflicts of interest, and protection of human and animal subjects.
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SA Renal Society Research Database 
