Biomedical Research: An Insider's Guide
This comprehensive yet concise book introduces people at all levels of training-undergraduate, graduate, and medical students, residents, fellows, and junior faculty-to the basic joys and challenges of biomedical research. By discussing many key research issues, would-be and early-stage academics wi...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
Springer New York : Imprint: Springer,
2016.
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Edición: | 1st ed. 2016. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto Completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Foreword
- PART 1: Basic considerations
- 1. So do you really want to pursue research?
- 2. What's in store: The brighter side of medical research
- 3. What's in store: The darker side of medical research
- 4. One degree of separation
- 5. Choosing and working with a mentor
- 6. Identifying a research niche you can call your own
- 7. Useful Definitions
- PART 2: Research Foundations and Structures
- 8. The Institutional Review Board: Do's, Don'ts, and Nevers...
- 9. Animal Care and Use Committees
- 10. Research beyond humans and vertebrates
- 11. Hiring Research Staff
- 12. Strategy and Tactics: Running a Successful Laboratory
- 13. Everything you ever wanted to know about collaboration Part 3: Successful Paper and Grant Writing
- 14. Writing a successful research paper. I-Up to the point of submission
- 15. Writing a successful research paper. II-Revising, resubmitting, and post-acceptance tasks
- 16. Funding: An overview
- 17. Where to apply for funding: making the right choices
- 18. Writing a winning grant application
- 19. Grant budgeting
- 20. Grant writing: Pearls and lumps of coal
- 21. Research Training, Fellowship, and Career grants
- 22. Grant review from the inside
- 23. Interpreting your reviews
- 24. To resubmit or not resubmit and how to do it
- Part 4: Good presentations, conferencing, networking, and other useful tools
- 25. The art of good presentation
- 26. Effective conferencing
- 27. Networking in the 21st century
- 28. Conflicts of interest
- 29. Scientific conduct and misconduct: what is right and proper, what is not, and what is somewhere in the middle
- 30. Article review and reading: being efficient and as thorough as you need to be
- 31. Patents
- 32. Working with industry
- Part 5: Career choices and life lessons
- 33. Jobs in biomedical science: seeking, landing, and changing
- 34. Academic Promotion and Titles
- 35. On being a mentor
- 36. Yardsticks of success
- 37. Research Life Lesson #1: Everything takes longer than you think, so plan for it
- 38. Research life lesson #2: A person's research is endlessly important to them
- 39. Research Life lesson #3: Balance, timing, cycles and seeing the big picture
- 40. Research Life Lesson #4: Your career is an ultramarathon, not a sprint
- 41. Conclusion: Nothing satisfies like meaningful work
- Acknowledgements.