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Faculty/MUMUS links
Ever wanted to find out more about the research opportunities available to you? Floating the idea of doing a honours year, or maybe even a PhD later on?
- Official faculty information regarding the BMedSc (Hons): https://www.monash.edu/medicine/som/bmedsc-hons
- Resource hub set up by MUMUS: https://mumus.org/resources/year-bmedsci
- Honours year project database: https://studentresearchprojects.med.monash.edu.au/
Short courses
- Biostatistics for Clinical and Public Health Research: http://www.med.monash.edu.au/sphpm/shortcourses/biostatistics.html
- Qualitative research methods: http://www.med.monash.edu.au/sphpm/shortcourses/qualitative-research-methods-2017.html
- Introduction to research methods: http://alfredetc-professional-development.cvent.com/events/introduction-to-research-methods-2017/event-summary-53ab8baf98f44bae96253d32dd3ae2c8.aspx
- Introduction to biostatistics: http://alfredetc-professional-development.cvent.com/events/introduction-to-biostatistics-2017/event-summary-0a0a010abbce440cbe4686881ea449c7.aspx
- Systematic reviews: http://www.med.monash.edu.au/sphpm/shortcourses/systematic-reviews.html
- Introduction to stata: http://www.med.monash.edu.au/sphpm/shortcourses/stata-mar.html
- Survival Analysis with Stata: http://www.med.monash.edu.au/sphpm/shortcourses/survival-analysis.html
- Ethics and Good Research Practice: http://www.med.monash.edu.au/sphpm/shortcourses/ethics.html
- Introduction to Data Analysis: SPSS Without Tears:
- http://www.med.monash.edu.au/sphpm/shortcourses/spss.html
Understanding statistics
Unsure of where to start when understanding statistics? Here are a few resources to get you started
- https://explorable.com/statistics-tutorial
- Performing a power analysis: http://rgs.usu.edu/irb/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/08/A_Researchers_Guide_to_Power_Analysis_USU.pdf
Writing up research
Literature review forums of 2017
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2TC-Nva8Po
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuO8bSxsej0
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tGuZGrSnUk
External links
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3715443/
- http://journal.publications.chestnet.org/collection.aspx?categoryid=9199
- http://www.ajronline.org/doi/abs/10.2214/AJR.06.1003
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17936960
- http://www.ajhp.org/cgi/pmidlookup?view=long&pmid=21515862
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3907284/
- https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/academic-program/write-great-research-paper/
Submitting papers
Choose the right journal for your research: http://thinkchecksubmit.org/
Curating your coding
Coursera is a great place to get your skills up – plenty of free courses and learning is self-paced.
- For a list of courses, click here.
- R programming: https://www.coursera.org/r-programming
- Matlab: https://www.coursera.org/learn/matlab
- edX also offers courses in data science: https://www.edx.org/course/introduction-r-data-science-microsoft-dat204x-4?gclid=CJfsvODG3NMCFZ4KKgodxQ0OtQ
- DataCamp does too!: https://www.datacamp.com/courses
Perfecting your presentation
- http://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005373
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1876493/
- http://www.cgd.ucar.edu/cms/agu/scientific_talk.html
- https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/academic-program/give-great-research-talk/
- https://sciblogs.co.nz/the-atavism/2011/04/06/what-makes-a-great-scientific-talk/
- Design ideas: https://www.slideshare.net/jessedee/100cannes/2-From_June_2026_10_some
- http://blogs.nature.com/naturejobs/2017/01/11/scientific-presentations-a-cheat-sheet/
- http://blogs.nature.com/naturejobs/2016/02/10/a-david-letterman-like-countdown-to-the-10-biggest-pitfalls-in-scientific-presentations/
- http://mesa.ac.nz/2011/02/presentations/
- https://www.americanexpress.com/us/small-business/openforum/articles/hook-presentation-audience-30-seconds/