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Choosing a thesis topic you can actually finish in 18 months


A feasibility checklist used by our senior doctor panel: patient load, ethics, cost, equipment, time and the novelty test.

  • Entry no. 06 of 18
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The guide

A brilliant topic you cannot complete is worse than an ordinary topic you can defend. Our doctor panel scores every candidate topic on six questions before we show it to you.

  • Patient load: can your department realistically enrol the sample size in 12 months?
  • Ethics: will the IEC[5] approve it without a long back-and-forth? Is consent practical?
  • Cost: are any investigations outside routine care, and who pays?
  • Equipment: is the instrument or kit available, calibrated and in use in your hospital?
  • Time: does follow-up fit within your data-collection window?
  • Novelty: does it add something local or methodological that the last ten similar theses did not?

Our process

You receive three vetted options with a one-page feasibility note each, a pilot literature search and a rough sample size. You and your guide choose; we then build the synopsis around it.


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