2023

Negida Courses
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AHMED NEGIDA
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Assignment 4 Assignment 1.5 (more instructions were added)
Assignment 5 Assignment 1.6 (more instructions were added)
Assignment 6 Assignment 1.7 (more instructions were added)
Assignment 7 Assignment 1.8 (X2 and improved)
Assignment 8 Deleted – included in the videos
Assignment 1.9 (new)

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Assignment 2.4 (more guidance was added)
Assignment 11 Assignment 2.5
Assignment 12 Assignment 2.6
Assignment 13 Assignment 2.7 (became more specific)
Assignment 2.8 (became more specific)

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NOTE: all assignments are tracked & reviewed

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 Collaboration Tools
* That you may use to solve the assignments *
For group meeting
 Zoom
 Microsoft Teams
 Google Hangouts

Conclusion: use anyone of them

For group communication

 WhatsApp (not professional, less security, limited msg history, less options)
 Telegram (not professional, encrypted, larger capacity with history)
 Slack (strongly recommended)

Conclusion: use slack

For group documents creation and sharing

 Google drive (most common & recommended)
 Microsoft 365 online
 OneDrive
 Coda.io (most powerful but most difficult)

Conclusion: use google drive

For reference management

 Mendeley (Free): https://youtu.be/IPtSPnt5ZFY
 Zotero (Free): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4asXgsr6ek5H5mM9GlA1d-
YCb9KvP3Ja
 Sci-Wheel (Free): https://sciwheel.com/ and academy.negida.com (lecture W3)

Conclusion: Use sci-wheel

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 Welcome to our Research Training

Date

I confirm that this is a group submission NOT an individual activity*

Confirmation
* Please, note that starting from January 2023, individual assignments
will not be accepted. You should solve the assignment within a group of
the course participants. Then all members should submit the same file to
the online learning system.

Team Name

When uploading the Assignment, add your subgroup name to the file as follows:

[Subgroup Name]_Assignment 1.3

For example, if your subgroup team is called “Endocrinology Warriors”, you will submit the
assignment file and give it the name Endocrinology Warriors_assignment 1.3.

For example, if your subgroup team is called “Neurology 3”, you will submit the assignment file
and give it the name Neurology 3_assignment 1.3.

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Add all the team members’ names & emails below**

Name Email

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** If your team includes more than ten members, feel free to add more rows to include additional
names and emails in the list.

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 Course 1: Fundamentals of Clinical Research

The assignments of this course will strengthen your ability to distinguish between
primary vs. secondary research as well as basic science vs. clinical research,
identify a research topic, choose a suitable research idea, searching PubMed,
drafting the study protocol and understanding the different study designs.

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Assignment 1.3. Formulating the Research Question

Goal
 To learn how to format the research question.
 To learn about the components of the different research questions.

This assignment will increase your capabilities to do the following step in the research process.

History
This assignment was called “Assignment 2” in the previous seasons.

How to solve
From the previous assignment

 Choose ONLY the primary research papers.

 For those representing primary research, write the titles in the table below.
 In front of each title, write the full research question.
 Beside the research question, write the components of the research question.

The first two rows show 2 examples as illustration on how you should do this assignment.

Article title Research Question Components

Example A randomized Does high-dosage Population: Patients with early
1 clinical trial of high- coenzyme Q10 improves Parkinson Disease
dosage coenzyme the motor functions of Intervention: High-dosage
Q10 in early patients with early Coenzyme Q10
Parkinson disease: Parkinson’s Disease Comparator: Placebo
no evidence of compared to placebo? Outcome: Motor functions

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 benefit measured on the UPDRS-III
score
Example Thyroid Cancer and Does pesticide exposure Population: General population
2 Pesticide Use in a increase the risk of Indicator (risk factor): Pesticide
Central California thyroid cancer? exposure
Agricultural Area: A Outcome (event): Thyroid
Case Control Study Do individuals exposed cancer
to pesticides have higher
risk of developing
thyroid cancer compared
to those without
pesticide exposure?
(Better format)
Researc
h Q1
Researc
h Q2
Researc
h Q3
Researc
h Q4
Researc
h Q5

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