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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rutkove, Seward B. (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
Edición:1st ed. 2016.
Temas:
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.