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Medical School RTP 6960
Research Skills
Andy Grierson
Eu05 – a.j.grierson.ac.uk – ext 61310
http://www.shef.ac.uk/medicine/current/postgraduates/tasks.html
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RTP content
• Lab Book
• Training Log
• Research Report
• Oral Presentation
“Get 10 credits for stuff you should be doing anyway”Bonus Credits available
1. 4th Febuary 2008
2. Presentation (17th April 2008)
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Training LogDesigned to keep a formal record of
• Safety training• Laboratory skills• Conference attendance• Lectures
“Get credits for stuff you should be doing anyway”
http://www.shef.ac.uk/medicine/current/postgraduates/tasks.html
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Training Log SheetsSummary Individual Activity
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Training Log example
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Training Log
• Fill in a separate sheet for each “activity”
• Keep in a ring binder
• Keep it up to date
• Keep it tidy
• Keep it safe
• Keep a summary sheet
• Use it to store other important documents
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Training log – H&S
• Departmental Safety Course• Fire lectures• Radiation Safety Course• Biological Safety (GMAG)• Equipment usage• Lab specific health and safety
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Training Log -education
• RTPs
• Techniques and Equipment usage
• Training days (CPD)
• Internal Seminars / Lectures
• External Seminars / Lectures
• Conferences
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Training Log - other
Can be used as a place to keep other important items associated with your study
•Supervisor meeting reports
•Mentor meeting reports
•Associated literature and manuals
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Lab book
• Must use School of Medicine Lab Book• A complete and detailed record of each
experiment you perform. • Legal requirement – IP - Plagiarism• Title & Aims• Methods• Results• Conclusions
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Lab book
• Use the contents page
• Refer back to commonly used methods – Routine methods section?
• Electronic data – On a CD or DVD and taped in. Specific path for archived data
• Could you follow your records 5 years later?
• Could someone else follow your records?
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Lab book
• Filled in daily
• Each page signed and dated by you
• Checked and signed by your supervisor at the very minimum every 2 weeks
• Preferably weekly
• Completed Lab books must be logged with the School when you leave
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Marking Training log and Lab Book
• Intermediate assessment 13th December 2007
• Final mark 1st May 2008
• Assessed by Andy Grierson and Angie Cox
• 10 min formal meeting
• No excuses
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Research report
• 1st years research in a paper format!
• Look at papers and follow the writing style
• Abstract (250 words), Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion, References, Figures with Legends
• Use Endnote for references and use a numbered style. Hand your library in!
• Not to exceed 4000 words (Std paper length)
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Research report• Encourage to format in a published paper style
rather than just standard pages
• 10 point Arial font
• 2 columns
• Design figures to fit either 1 or 2 columns
• Check figure once shrunk to fit for readable font size and figure impact.
• Don’t forget the figure legend!
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Research report - Submission
• 7th April 2007. 4.30pm.
• Every day late you lose 5% of your final Mark.
• 2 Printed copies and 1 Electronic copy to Jodie Burnham (L116). j.a.burnham @shef.ac.uk
• You must email your Endnote reference Library to Jodie