Understanding Medical Research: Your Facebook Friend is Wrong
Completed by Robert Jakob
September 18, 2020
16 hours (approximately)
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What you will learn
How to efficiently read a medical research paper and how to differentiate between good and bad research
The different tests used in medical research and how to spot common errors in methodology and interoperation for each
Read and understand statistical figures, charts, and graphics
How best to verify claims made in news articles
Skills you will gain
- Category: Scientific Methods
- Category: Risk Analysis
- Category: Research Methodologies
- Category: Medical Terminology
- Category: Analysis
- Category: Statistics
- Category: Biostatistics
- Category: Fraud detection
- Category: Data Literacy
- Category: Clinical Research
- Category: Statistical Methods
- Category: Medical Science and Research

