Target Audience
Early stage postgraduate research students in the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences 

Prerequisites
Attendance on 0.5 day course Critical Appraisal of Scientific literature 1 (non-clinical) or Critical Appraisal of Scientific literature 2 (clinical). 

Aims
To help you to read and critically appraise published information.

Description
The coursework should be completed by students who have attended the Critical Appraisal of Scientific literature course and wish to put into practice the skills learnt during this session. Two training points can be gained through completion of the coursework and students should register to complete this additional coursework section.

Students should choose a paper of relevance to their work and prepare a critical analysis of that paper (up to 1000 words). The coursework will be assessed by the student’s Supervisor and feedback will be provided. It is beneficial for both Student and Supervisor to complete this process of assessment and feedback.

The coursework following review by your supervisor should be submitted by e-mail to mhsgc@nottingham.ac.uk by 4pm on 30 June 2018 or 1st September 2019. Attendance will then be recorded on receipt of coursework.

Booking Guidelines       

Latecomer policy
Researchers should plan to arrive prior to the advertised course start time. Except for exceptional reasons, there will be no admittance to a Researcher Academy or Faculty Training Programme (FTP) course 15 minutes after the advertised course start time.

Importance of booking commitment
When booking on to a Researcher Academy short course you are entering into a commitment to attend. If you find that you are no longer available to attend you MUST cancel your place (on the system if more than three days before the course or if at short notice by emailing pg-training@nottingham.ac.uk). This will ensure that your place can be offered to another researcher on the waiting list. Failure to cancel a place results in other researchers missing out on places through the waiting list process.

It is unacceptable for researchers to just not attend when booked onto a course. Researcher Academy maintains records of those who repeatedly do not attend courses they have booked. This may affect future eligibility to book onto further Researcher Academy courses and will affect considerations for Researcher Academy funded opportunities.

Course dates for 2019/20 will be published in early October 2019.  If there are no dates listed below then the instance(s) of the course has (have) already taken place for 2019/20 academic year.