i4i Life Sciences Accelerator programme – spaces still available.

The i4i Life Sciences Accelerator programme has been developed by the NIHR and experienced medtech industry experts to help researchers who are applying for funding to improve their chances of success.

The next i4i Life Sciences Accelerator programme takes place in two parts:

Wednesday 15 February (evening) to Friday 17 February

Tuesday 6 March to Wednesday 7 March

Based on the highly successful Henley Accelerator, the i4i Life Sciences Accelerator programme provides specialist advice and support to help participants develop their business skills and enable them to construct well-crafted applications and business plans. For more information please download the programme flyer or visit the NIHR i4i web pages: http://www.ccf.nihr.ac.uk/i4i/Pages/i4iAcceleratorProg.aspx

The Centre for Professional Development has begun running a variety of short courses over the last few months, and on 15 and 16 May 2012 May they are hosting a course on ‘Commercialising Academic Medical Research’.  This course would be relevant to a lot of research staff.

Provides education and training for healthcare researchers in Birmingham. Training is free for employees of members institutions (including NHS). Courses and workshops include Good Clinical Practice, informed consent, research governance and ethics, turning a research idea into a research proposal

Continuing professional development courses on statistics, epidemiology, systematic reviews, critical appraisal

Short courses on ethics, RCTs, statistical methods, qualitative research design, clinical epidemiology and evidence based healthcare, systematic reviews

Database of health-related training opportunities nationwide, including degrees (taught and research), short courses, workshops and conferences

Aims to develop an evidence-based approach in health and social care. Workshops and training offered on appraising systematic reviews, RCTs, economic evaluations, cohort studies, qualitative research, case-control studies

Training on the use of exposure measures, incidence and prevalence, risk, odds ratios, study designs, sample size calculation, bias and confounding

Research methods for clinical trials courses, including systematic reviews and meta-analysis, trial design, protocol development, trial management, funding and research costs

2 day course providing an introduction to the main statistical ideas and techniques that are used in the design and analysis of clinical trials

Courses on conducting and appraising systematic reviews, and links to regional training events and systematic review courses

Events and courses on the conduct and appraisal of systematic reviews

Introduces the basic principles of health economics and the basic knowledge needed to interpret and appraise applied studies in health economics. Covers health and health care systems, economic valuation methods and the interface between health economics and health policy.

Training on health and health outcome measures, economic modelling and evaluation, equity and efficiency in healthcare

A one-day course designed to provide a basic understanding of health economic evaluation

3 day course for clinicians, public health specialists and researchers who are, or will be, involved in the conduct of research projects that evaluate the cost-effectiveness of health care

A range of short courses including modelling, regression, applied health economics, quality of life assessment

3 day course for health economists and health professionals with some knowledge of health economics who wish to learn about the methodology of cost-effectiveness analysis as applied in health care

Introductory and intermediate statistics, survival analysis using SPSS

Introductory and intermediate statistics using Stata

Extensive information on use of packages including SAS, Stata and SPSS, useful FAQ section and list of downloadable books on a variety of statistical methods

10 week online course covering the basics of handling data, probability, inference, testing, linear models and application to cohort studies, case-control studies, RCTs

Some basic online courses including beginning statistics, clinical trials, sample size determination and use of the free software package 'R' for statistics

4 day short course covering the essential principles and methods for design, analysis and interpretation of medical research projects

5 day short course using SPSS: ANOVA, correlation, agreement, logistic regression, survival analysis, meta-analysis

Short courses on statistics, data analysis (for a range of levels of competence), survey design, programming