Medical Statistics

Appreciating research publications

Evidenced based medicine

Critical appraisal

This Course is downloaded to your computer as a single executable file, and will contain Video Files in Windows Media Format and also all the paper based materials such as notes, graphs in PDF and slides in Ms PowerPoint format that you will be able to simply print off if you wish to. Once you have purchased this course, you will be automatically registered to our Forum and will be able to both read questions and comments by others and also able to post any questions of your own. The file is approximately 620mb in size, so download times may vary according to the speed of your internet connection.

Course contents are:

Introduction

1.1  Welcome

1.2  Hospital Doctor Publications

1.2.1        Essential statistics for research

1.2.2        Evidence from research

1.2.3        Parametric and non-parametric statistics

2.      Course 1

2.1.           Video  - (1 hour, 7 mins 55 secs)

2.2.            Slides of Course 1

2.3.            Texts

2.3.1.      Practical statistics for clinicians

2.3.2.      Measures of effect

2.3.3.      What are confidence intervals?

2.3.4.       Non-parametric statistics

3.      Course 2

3.1.            Video  - (37 mins 22 secs)

3.2.            Slides of Course 2

3.3.            Texts

3.3.1.      Pictorial view of study designs and endpoints

3.3.2.      Notes on hierarchy of study designs

3.3.3.      Bias

3.3.4.      Confounding  

3.3.5.      Heterogeneity in systematic reviews

4.      Course 3

4.1.            Video  - (26 mins 20 secs)

4.2.            Slides of Course 3

4.3.            Texts

4.3.1.      How to read a paper

4.3.2.      Statistical tests

4.3.2.1.                        Statistical tests for continuous data

4.3.2.2.                        Chi-squared test

4.3.2.3.                        Diagnostic tests

4.3.3.      Sample size calculation   Video  - (13 mins 38 secs)

4.3.3.1.                        Illustration: Power of a study

4.3.3.2.                         Illustration: Type 1 and Type 2 errors

4.3.3.3.                        Sample size for categorical data 

4.3.3.4.                        Sample size for continuous data

5.      Course 4

5.1.            How to read an economic paper

5.2.            Reading List

5.3.            Statement of Accreditation for ‘Statistics for clinicians course’

5.4.            Information on the follow-up course for examinations:

5.4.1.      How to make abstracts tell the story in the paper.

5.4.2.      How to present a randomised controlled study paper.

5.4.3.      How to present an observational study paper.

5.4.4.      How to present a systematic review paper.