General
Bristol University courses
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/medical-school/study/short-courses/
Edinburgh university courses
https://clinical-research-facility.ed.ac.uk/courses-and-events
Epidemiology
https://www.abdn.ac.uk/iahs/research/epidemiology/icae-aberdeen-course-158.php
BioRender: Scientific image and illustration software (tool for developing pictograms)
Scientific Image and Illustration Software | BioRender
Critical appraisal skills programme
CASP - Critical Appraisal Skills Programme (casp-uk.net)
Statistics
An Introduction to Statistical Learning (book)
Website: https://www.statlearning.com/ .
An excellent book to read overall, with different versions for R and python, the PDF version is free, and can be downloaded from
Biostatistics For Dummies (book)
-This absolute gem not only teaches you statistics, but also has very helpful guides on how to collect, clean and process data, and it is written in beginner friendly language.
Medical Statistics made easy (book)
-This is the most beginner friendly book ever, although, its descriptions are pretty basic.
Jamovi (online)
Available at: jamovi - open statistical software for the desktop and cloud
Jamovi is an open source free software, which functions similarly to SPSS, and is a good tool for those who are not interested in learning programming languages.
R help (online resources)
Data Science and Machine Learning Bootcamp with R- Jose Portilla, on www.udemy.com
Survival Analysis in R- R-Tutorials Training on www.udemy.com
R for health data science: https://argoshare.is.ed.ac.uk/healthyr_book/
UCLA statistics help (online)
https://stats.oarc.ucla.edu/stata/modules/
Coursera Introduction to statistics (online)
https://www.coursera.org/learn/stanford-statistics
Imperial Introduction to Medical Statistics course
https://www.imperial.ac.uk/events/163313/introductory-medical-statistics-held-online-2/
Qualitative research
Social Research Association (SRA)
Cochrane
Online learning | Cochrane Training
Some good online learning resources i.e. for systematic review
Referencing / organising
Zotero (Free reference manager not requiring a university login)
Mendeley tutorial (free referencing software)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzFHGFnAM2Q
Microsoft OneNote
Microsoft OneNote Digital Note Taking App | Microsoft 365
A tool for developing projects, and creating an online diary
Leadership
Associate Principal Investigator scheme
https://www.nihr.ac.uk/health-and-care-professionals/career-development/associate-principal-investigator-scheme.htm
NIHR Associate Principal Investigator (PI) Scheme Educational Event (online)
Mentoring
Academy of medical sciences
https://acmedsci.ac.uk/grants-and-schemes/mentoring-and-other-schemes/mentoring-programme