The 12 core sessions are:
- Epidemiology: Basic Principles
- Meta-analysis and Evidence-based Medicine
- Audit: Basic Principles
- Searching the Journal Literature and Locating Papers
- How to Review a Paper
- Formulating and Writing a Research Proposal
- The Regulatory Environment for Conducting Research within the NHS - Research Governance and Ethics
- Designing a Randomized Controlled Trial: Basic Principles
- Clinical Studies Part One: Cohort Studies and Measures of Association
- Clinical Studies Part Two: Study Design
- Systematic Reviews
- Qualitative Research: Basic Principles