Cmed scholarships

General details

For any questions related to scholarships please use the correspondence email address: contact@biostats-msc.org

The competition will take place on 2nd/3rd of November 2011 at Cmed Office, Timisoara 2nd floor City Business Centre building A, no 10 C Brediceanu street.

Wednesday 2^nd of November 2011

Thursday 3^rd of November 2011

Preparations includes:

Essay – 3 pages Times Roman, font size 10 (Maximum 1500 words). The essay will be based on the topic chosen.

Slide Set – Maximum of 15 slides. The slide set will be based on the essay.

CV in English

The essay and CV should be submitted no later than 31st of October 2011 9:00am.

There are 4 topics which are presented in detail below. A clear reference list should also be included – outside of those 3 pages. The language used should be English.

The slide set should be sent one day before the competition date. The slides presentation should last no more than 15 minutes.

Any fraud will disqualify the student for any scholarship, internship or  possible job within Cmed.

The essay, CV and slide set should be sent on the correspondence email address.

Topics allocation

There are 4 slots available for each topic. Please send an email to the correspondence email address with your preference. The sooner you send it the higher are the chances to get the topic you want. The email should also contain your name in order to allow us to easily identify you.

Topics details

An adaptive trial is a study that includes a prospectively planned opportunity for modification of one or more specified aspects of the study design and hypotheses based on analysis of data from subjects in the study.

Discuss the strengths and weaknesses of Adaptive Trial designs and focus on specific areas in clinical research where you think they may have the most potential/impact in the next decade.

Discuss the principles of cross-over clinical trials including the rationale for their design.  Consider the advantages and disadvantages of these designs (specifically, where they should not be used and why).  Taking the common 2 x 2 cross-over trial with continuous data as an example, outline common design considerations for such a trial and propose an analysis strategy.

3. Multi-centre Clinical Trials

One of the main concerns when planning clinical trials is ensuring there is an adequate number of patients to recruit.  Multi-centre clinical trials can help ensure that sufficient numbers of patients can be recruited within the given timeframe.  Discuss both the design and statistical analysis considerations to enable a successful multi-centre clinical trial.

There are many Statistical Computing Packages available today each offering many and varied features for the manipulation, presentation and analysis of data.
Provide a high-level specification for what you would consider the ideal Statistical Computing Package for analysing clinical trial data.