Clinicum Node Solna - local research support with a focus on scientific and methodological advice
Clinicum Node Solna is part of the region-wide Clinicum organization which aims to strengthen the quality of clinical and translational research.
In its entirety, Clinicum consists of a central organization and seven nodes which represent the health care providers in Region Stockholm and SLSO. The nodes' activities aim to offer scientific advice and to provide methodological support based on local needs.
Cliinicum Node Solna's mission is to:
- Provide clinical and translational researcher support in assessing and developing the quality of their study design and analysis of data
- Provide methodological support and advice in biostatistics and bioinformatics
- Ensure access to the support services and IT environments to facilitate handling of health data in research
- Provide a methodology support program for doctoral students in order to deliver support across a somewhat longer period than the regular Clinicum service
The activities in Clinicum Node Solna are aimed at researchers who are employed or affiliated with one of the departments located in Solna, and the counseling service is free of charge. The activity is located at the Division of Clinical Epidemiology (KEP) at the Department of Medicine, Solna.
What can you as a researcher get support with?
In Clinicum's operations, there are researchers in biostatistics and epidemiology that are involved in the scientific advice.
For projects in the early phase, there is opportunity to discuss issues related to study design, choice of statistical method, data orders, description of method sections in applications to the ethics review authority or to grant providers
Clinicum can also help with recommendations and considerations linked to conference abstracts, statistical analysis plans, study protocols, or review comments
Clinicum's method support network can also participate in shorter consultations that can help researchers avoid common mistakes when performing statistical programming or analyses, as well as discuss ideas for new studies and analyses.
How do you apply?
- Application:
You need to fill in a complete application for support to ensure that you as a researcher receive the best possible help from our method and research specialists - Application process:
Your application will then be processed by Clinicum's method support coordinator and you will be contacted shortly via e-mail to schedule an initial appointment - Meetings:
Clinicum Node Solna is located in the division of Clinical Epidemiology's premises in Eugeniahemmet (Maria Aspmans gata 16). This is where we hold our physical meetings. Digital meetings are also possible, but we would like to encourage you to visit us on site to make the counseling sessions as good as possible.
Things to consider when applying for support:
- Apply for support in time. The earlier your application is received, the better support you can expect.
- Fill in the application form carefully. A more clearly formulated question gives us a better chance of connecting you to the right methodological competence.
- Feel free to bring key collaborators to the counselling session. We encourage researchers to consider our consultations as research meetings and welcome doctoral students, postdocs, your own statisticians or programmers to participate.
- As a basic rule, we cannot provide practical support with data processing or statistical analyses via Clinicum. Researchers in need of long-term and/or hands-on data analysis are advised to contact the Biostatistics Core (Division of Biostatistics, IMM), MedStat (LIME) or procured external statistics consultants.
Clinicum Node Solna's methodology support program for doctoral students
In Clinicum Node Solna's methodology support program, doctoral students are paired with a methodology expert with experience in methods that are needed for the planned research.
The role of the methodology expert is to be a discussion partner and a sounding board during the research process, preferably with regard to the methodological aspects of the project. The methodology expert will not carry out statistical analyzes within the framework of this program, but will instead contribute to the doctoral student achieving the theoretical and practical learning outcomes that the research project entails.
In order for the program to have the greatest benefit, it is therefore assumed that applicants have basic knowledge and skills in data management in some statistical software. The extent of the support for each individual doctoral student constitutes a maximum of 10 hours of meeting time. The format of the support, i.e., arrangements regarding the number of meetings, duration and regularity of meetings is determined together with the doctoral student.
Eligible to apply for Clinicum Node Solna's methodology support program are doctoral students employed at one of the deaprtments at KI Campus Nord. The application period for the 2025 program will open in December 2024 (last date to submit an application is 15 January 2025).
Contact
Please send your questions regarding Clinicum Node Solna operations and activities to clinicum-solna@ki.se