How can you tell if the bold headlines seen on social media are truly touting the next big thing or if the article isn't worth the paper it's printed on?
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Understanding Medical Research: Your Facebook Friend is Wrong
Yale UniversityAbout this Course
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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
- Medicine
- Health Research
- Medical Terminology
- Medical Writing
- Research Methods
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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
Welcome!
The Basics
Medical Statistics Made Ridiculously Simple
Types of Medical Studies
Reviews
- 5 stars92.44%
- 4 stars6.91%
- 3 stars0.23%
- 2 stars0.11%
- 1 star0.29%
TOP REVIEWS FROM UNDERSTANDING MEDICAL RESEARCH: YOUR FACEBOOK FRIEND IS WRONG
I thoroughly enjoyed this course! It provided me with many great insights and provided some great tools to decipher medical research papers. Thank you for providing this great course!
I thoroughly enjoyed this course! That must mean I am weird, but proof awaits a properly performed statistical study of the population who also "attended" the program.
Allen J Rovner, MD
It is a pretty good course to begin sailing in the tricky sea of research :D but you will need more in-depth courses to fully understand and write in medical literature , specially on biostatistics .
Such a timely course as the news is filled with research study after research study with, sometimes, competing results. Never before have I heard "pre-print" and "not peer reviewed" so frequently.
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