Guidelines for Advanced Training in Paediatrics

Advanced Training Projects

How to Write a Project

A project report should be of a format and standard suitable for presentation at a meeting of a national or international society or for publication in a peer reviewed journal.

• Pages should be numbered and lines double spaced
• The Title Page should contain the full title of the paper, names of other authors, institute where the work was conducted, name of the project supervisor, date of submission and whether project is part of a higher degree
• The Abstract should be structured and no more than 250 words subdivided into the following sequential sections: Objective; Methodology; Results; Conclusions. Studies that do not easily conform to this subdivision may still be structured but the headings amended as appropriate. For Case Reports and Review Articles, unstructured, descriptive abstracts may be appropriate. The overall presentation should be similar to that for a journal article with introduction, patients and methods, results and discussion sections. The aim/objective/goal must be clearly stated
• The Introduction should be relatively brief and should outline the background of the study including the aims and hypotheses. Detailed literature reviews and discussion should be reserved for the Discussion section
• Patients and Methods and all terms must be defined. Statistical methods should be presented entirely within the methods section
• The Results section should contain all the results. Results should not creep into the methods or discussion sections. Tables, figures and illustrations must be referred to in the text and have appropriate legends. Tables and figures should be readable and intelligible as 'stand alone' items. Any figures and photographs should be labelled on the back
• The Discussion should be precise, logical and relevant to the particular study. Authors should compare their results with other studies and state what contribution the project makes to the existing literature and what the implications are for clinical practice. The discussion should include recommendations for future studies or directions
• The References must follow the Vancouver convention
• Acknowledgments, either as a footnote to the text or on the front page, are to recognise contributions that fall short of authorship.

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