The mission of EPOS is to enhance the quality of care for children with orthopaedic conditions. Conducting scientific research plays an important part in this mission: to drive innovation, to find better and new ways to treat patients, and ultimately to improve patient outcomes and quality of life. In this special episode, host Darius Rad is joined by the members of the EPOS Scientific Committee to speak about the importance of scientific research and how to get a research project off the ground: from the initial motivation and idea all the way to getting a research project funded.
Chapter list:
- 03:16 Motivation for research – why is it important (Darko Antičević)
- 10:05 How to find a research idea – introduction to the FINER criteria (Ilhan Bayhan)
- 15:06 How to develop a research project – introduction to PICOT (Jaap Tolk)
- 22:03 Ethical considerations in paediatric research (Tristan Langlais)
- 27:40 Research in rare diseases or less common fields such as upper extremity (Petra Grahn)
- 36:21 How the Scientific Committee evaluates projects submitted to the EPOS grant programme (César Fontecha)
You can listen to this episode on Spotify, Apple, Listen Notes, or wherever you listen to your favourite podcasts.
To find out more about funding opportunities for your research project in paediatric orthopaedics, take a look at the EPOS research grants.
Video Shorts
Intrinsic and extrinsic motivation
Finding your research idea
Developing your research idea
Ethical considerations
Researching rare diseases
How research projects are evaluated
Show Notes
This episode of the EPOS Podcast was hosted by Darius Rad, a consultant at University Hospital Southampton who specialises in all aspects of children’s trauma and orthopaedic surgery, with special interest paediatric neuromuscular limb pathology, sports lower limb and deformity correction surgery. The episode was produced by Anja Jones, Communications Manager at EPOS.