Pre-Clinical 5. Overview of Preclinical Research; 6. What Problem Are You Solving?; 7. Types of Interventions; 8. Drug Discovery; 9. Drug Testing; 10. Device Discovery and Prototyping; 11. Medical Device Testing; 12. Diagnostic Discovery; 13. Diagnostic Testing; 14. Other Product Types; 15. Procedural Technique Development; 16. Behavioral Intervention
Clinical: Fundamentals 17. Introduction to Clinical Research: What is it? Why is it needed?; 18. The Question: Types of Research Questions and How to Develop Them; 19. Study Population: Who and why them?; 20. Outcome Measurements: What data is being collected and why?; 21. Optimizing the question: Balancing significance and feasibility Statistical Principles; 22. Basic Statistical Principles; 23. Distributions; 24. Hypotheses and Error Types; 25. Power; 26. Regression; 27. Continuous Variable Analyses: T-test, Man Whitney, Wilcoxon Rank; 28. Categorical Variable Analyses: Chi-Square, fisher exact, Mantel Hanzel; 29. Analysis of Variance; 30. Correlation; 31. Biases; 32. Basic Science Statistics
Clinical Implementation 90. Implementation Research; 91. Design and Analysis; 92. Population and Setting Specific Implementation
Public Health 93. Public Health; 94. Epidemiology; 95. Factors in Surgical Public Health and Health Disparities Research; 96. Good Questions; 97. Population and Environmental Specific Considerations; 98. Law, Policy, and Ethics; 99. Healthcare Institutions and Systems; 100. Public Health Institutions and Systems
Practical Resources 101. Presenting Data; 102. Manuscript Preparation; 103. Building a Team; 104. Patent Basics; 105. Venture Pathways; 106. SBIR/STTR; 107. Sample Forms and Templates
