Understanding Medical Research: Your Facebook Friend is Wrong
Completed by Cecilia Drevon-Barbecot
February 20, 2026
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: Fraud detection
- Category: Analysis
- Category: Science and Research
- Category: Research Methodologies
- Category: Medical Terminology
- Category: Medical Science and Research
- Category: Clinical Research
- Category: Scientific Methods
- Category: Research
- Category: Clinical Trials
- Category: Descriptive Statistics
- Category: Statistics
