1. Research during specialist medical training Lavu Potluri and Fidelma O'Mahony; 2. Time management when planning and conducting medical research Charles Redman and Esther Moss; 3. Computer skills required for medical research Ramesh Ganapathy and Nitish Raut; 4. Computer skills required for medical research: social media Elaine Leung; 5. Finding and using information in medical research Elaine Garrett and Lucy Reid; 6. Critical appraisal of the medical literature Pensée Wu and Jan Herman Kuiper; 7. Evidence-based medicine and translating research into practice James M. N. Duffy and Cindy M. Farquhar; 8. Clinical audit for quality improvement Hannah Knight, Ipek Gurol-Urganci and Tahir Mahmood; 9. Qualitative medical research Bernadette Bartlam and Bie Nio Ong; 10. Randomized clinical trials Siladitya Bhattacharya and Ashalatha Shetty; 11. Animal research and alternatives Fiona Broughton Pipkin; 12. Genetic and epigenetic research Sally Chappell and Linda Morgan; 13. 'Omic' research Louise C. Kenny and Fergus McCarthy; 14. Data management in medical research Kirstie McKenzie-McHarg, Sarah Ayers and Jim Thornton; 15. Statistics in medical research Louise Linsell and Pollyanna Hardy; 16. Epidemiological research Paul Silcocks; 17. Informing patients, consent, governance, and good clinical practice Anthony Wrigley, Jonathan A. Hughes and Nicola Leighton; 18. Patient involvement in medical research Annette Briley and Claire Singh; 19. Research in the context of the National Health Service Lucy Hope, Andrew Shennan and Khaled M. K. Ismail; 20. Supervising medical research and being supervised Sean T. Kehoe and Sudha Sundar; 21. Funding medical research Mark Smith; 22. The purpose and practice of medical research meetings Amanda Green; 23. How to present a medical research paper Andrew Hextall and Linda Cardozo; 24. How to write a medical research paper and get it accepted for publication Phillip J. Steer; 25. How to write a medical thesis Jennifer Byrom and David Lissauer; Supplementary section: obstetrics and gynaecology: A. Research in obstetrics Alexandra Ridout, Katie Duhig and Andrew Shennan; B. Research in fetal medicine Julia Unterscheider and Keelin O'Donoghue; C. Research in maternal medicine Lucy C. Chappell and Catherine Nelson-Piercy; D. Research in benign gynaecology Marie Gerval and Nick Panay; E. Research in gynaecological oncology Sandra SooHoo, Sudha Sundar and Sean T. Kehoe.