If you are new to research, there are a few things you should know going in. For some of these, check out Chapter 1 of Doing Research: A practical guide for health professionals.

Chapter 1 notes 12 tips and tricks for beginning researchers to start and finish a clinical research study. Three are to take baby steps, to consider descriptive research as your first project, and to use a protocol template from an institutional review board (IRB) to plan your study.

Check out the book, or my earlier blogpost that is a primer on descriptive studies earlier blog post, or “read sample” from Doing Research on amazon.com

Happy discovering!

Highfield, M.E.F. (2025). A Dozen Tips to Start. In: Doing Research. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-79044-7_1