Yale University - Understanding Medical Research: Your Facebook Friend is Wrong
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Understanding Medical Research: Your Facebook Friend is Wrong at Coursera Overview
Duration | 16 hours |
Total fee | Free |
Mode of learning | Online |
Difficulty level | Beginner |
Official Website | Explore Free Course  |
Credential | Certificate |
Understanding Medical Research: Your Facebook Friend is Wrong at Coursera Highlights
- Earn a shareable certificate upon completion.
- Flexible deadlines according to your schedule.
Understanding Medical Research: Your Facebook Friend is Wrong at Coursera Course details
- 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?
- Understanding Medical Studies, will provide you with the tools and skills you need to critically interpret medical studies, and determine for yourself the difference between good and bad science.
- The course covers study-design, research methods, and statistical interpretation. It also delves into the dark side of medical research by covering fraud, biases, and common misinterpretations of data. Each lesson will highlight case-studies from real-world journal articles.
- By the end of this course, you'll have the tools you need to determine the trustworthiness of the scientific information you're reading and, of course, whether or not your Facebook friend is wrong.
- This course was made possible in part by the George M. O'Brien Kidney Center at Yale.
Understanding Medical Research: Your Facebook Friend is Wrong at Coursera Curriculum
Welcome!
Course Introduction
Lesson Guide
Pre Course Survey
The Basics
How Research Works
The Medical Manuscript
The Replication Crisis
The Question is - What is the Question?
Module Preview
Pre Quiz: The Basics
The Basics
Medical Statistics Made Ridiculously Simple
Types of Data
Averages By Other Names
Sampling: The Secret Sauce of Statistics
Statistics is an Onion
The Biggest Secret in Medicine: Relative vs Absolute Risk
The Power and the Problem with the P-Value
Choosing a Statistical Test
The Interpretation of "Negative" Studies
Module Preview
Pre Quiz: Medical Statistics Made Ridiculously Simple
Medical Statistics Made Ridiculously Simple
Types of Medical Studies
The Randomized, Controlled Trial
Covid Content - How to Find Your Own Research
The Cohort Study
The Case-Control Study
Studies of Diagnostic Tests
Covid Content - Vaccine Efficacy Calculation
Meta-Analysis: Fondue or Clam Chowder?
Time to Event Analysis - Only the Strong Survive
The Cost-Effectiveness Study: How Much is Your Life Worth?
Module Preview
Pre Quiz: Types of Medical Studies
Types of Medical Studies
How Wrong Conclusions Are Reached
Causality
Confounding
Effect Modification and Mediation
Covid Content - Smoking does not prevent Covid-19 death
Generalizability
Multiple Comparisons
Surrogate Endpoints
Fraud
Covid Content
Pre Quiz: How Wrong Conclusions are Reached
How Wrong Conclusions Are Reached
Bias
Selection Bias
Information Bias
Time-Based Biases
Covid Content - Immortal Time Bias spotted in the wild!
Statistical Brain Teasers
Covid Content - Immortal Time Bias spotted in the wild!
Pre Quiz: Bias
Bias
Fixing the Problems with Medical Studies
Adjustment
Matching
Propensity Scoring
Putting It All Together
Pre Quiz: Fixing the Problems with Medical Studies
Medical Study Interpretation - Don?t Forget:
Fixing the Problems with Medical Studies
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