About the course

This course is for all Specialty Trainees, Consultants, Research Nurses and Allied Healthcare Professionals involved in or planning to perform clinical cardiovascular research within the NHS. 

Programme

An internationally renowned faculty take delegates through a step-by-step guide to the process of conducting clinical cardiovascular research from acquiring grant funding and making accurate sample size calculations to navigating the research ethics committee and appropriate data analysis, culminating in the production of a high impact publication.

Course Highlights:

• A keynote lecture from the new Medical Director of the British Heart Foundation - Professor Sir Nilesh Samani
• Top tips on how to get published in a high impact journal from an Executive Editor of The Lancet - Dr Stuart Spencer
• Transthoracic Echocardiography
• Writing a winning grant application
• Designing the ideal Patient Information Sheet
• How to prepare for the potential pitfalls arising from the Research Ethics Committee
• Accurate sample size calculations
• Top tips on data collection, cleaning and analysis
• Advice on what it takes to run a multi-centre trial

Course Directors

• Dr Aung Myat
• Professor David Hildick-Smith
• Professor Nick Curzen
• Dr Rod Stables
• Professor Adrian Banning

Contact us
Email courses@bcs.com or call us on +44 (0)207 380 1914