An introduction to the basic components of scientific papers written in the IMRaD format: “Introduction, Methods, Results and Conclusion.” Learn techniques for reading and writing scientific papers, summarizing them, and using them in your work. Many papers in medicine also make use of checklists (STROBE, EQUATOR, etc.), so this course briefly introduces the most commonly used checklists in medical research and explains how to use them when you read and write papers. Useful for anyone beginning to study or work in medicine or other health sciences and who needs an introduction to the most common format in scientific writing.

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