How to Use This App

Welcome to your research training roadmap. Here is how the app works. The curriculum is organized into 17 levels (Level 0 through Level 16). Each level focuses on a major topic — from research basics to biostatistics to scientific writing. Within each level, you will find modules (groups of related lessons) and individual lessons (bite-sized learning units of 5-15 minutes each). Each lesson contains a core explanation with clinical examples, key terms with simple definitions, an interactive task (such as building a PICO question, choosing a statistical test, or identifying bias), a short quiz (3-5 questions), and flashcards for review. Some lessons also include tool recommendations, common mistakes to avoid, and 'Beware' boxes highlighting critical warnings. As you complete lessons and quizzes, you earn progress points and build scores across seven dimensions: Research Readiness, Publication Readiness, Statistics Confidence, Tool Readiness, AI Safety, Critical Appraisal, and Ethics Awareness. These scores help you identify your strengths and areas for improvement. You also earn badges for milestones — completing levels, mastering specific skills, maintaining learning streaks, and demonstrating proficiency with tools. There are 30 badges to collect. At Level 16, you reach the capstone project. Here, you will pull together everything you have learned to design a complete research plan: select a research idea, define your question, choose your design, plan your analysis, draft an abstract, and select a target journal. This is your portfolio piece — proof that you can plan a study from start to finish. The app also includes a pre-course diagnostic test (at the end of Level 0) and a post-course assessment (at Level 16) so you can measure your growth. You can move through the levels sequentially or skip ahead if you pass a level's diagnostic test with 85% or higher. The app adapts to your level — if you already know study designs, you can jump past Level 4 and focus on areas where you need growth.