The Practical Guide to Clinical Research and Publication

Dr. Yoon (MD, MPH) graduated from Hannover Medical School in Germany. During that time he conducted 5 years of laboratory and clinical research and graduated with a MD/PHD equivalent degree. Additionally, he finished a 1 year public health master at Berlin School of Public Health. He wrote a book in German” Von der wissenschaftlichen Fragestellung zur Publikation“ published with Elsevier Germany in 2014. Currently he is a faculty member for Anesthesiology at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia and continues to conduct and lead clinical research.

1. Introduction
2. Evidence-based medicine
3. Epidemiology
4. Biostatistics
5. Planning a research study
6. Study design
7. Hierarchy of evidence
8. Funding
9. Data collection
10. Scaling and coding
11. Statistical tests
12. Random and systematic errors
13. Writing a manuscript and publication
14. Critical literature review
15. Checklist for quality assessment