Learning Resources
Regression to the Mean: an educational poem
A short poem about regression to the mean illustrated with a few examples!
A network for students interested in evidence-based health care
A short poem about regression to the mean illustrated with a few examples!
Evidence-Based Medicine is a growing field that has already made a tremendous impact on world healthcare. It’s only rational to teach it to medical students from the beginning, however, this is not always the case. Let me give you an example: me.
Bias is often an issue within clinical research, and we take many measures to avoid it. However, these measures are often neglected in preclinical animal studies, which give us the results upon which clinical trial study designs are based.
SPSS is a computer program used for statistical analysis. This tutorial will take you through a series of activities to help improve your SPSS skills.
In this medical statistics tutorial we will be looking at how the data that are collected by studies are summarized and presented in order to extract useful information. We will then start to look at how to analyse the data.
Ben Goldacre setting challenges for the Cochrane Collaboration.
This is a video from the Cochrane UK & Ireland 21st Anniversary Symposium looking at the Challenges of communication facing the Cochrane Collaboration.
This is the Opening Plenary video from the Cochrane UK & Ireland 21st Anniversary Symposium 2013.
Brilliant reworking of Gotye’s ‘Somebody That I Used to Know’ song but to do with EBM!
Paper from the US Institute of Medicine on how clinicians should communicate with patients on evidence-based medicine.
Information for patients and members of the public in recognizing and interpreting how advertisements of screening tests can mislead them.
Short animated movie on the importance of shared decision making. Looking at how we weigh our options and what other factors affect our decisions when it comes to the patient’s needs.
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Another 20 minute tutorial from Tim.
The nuts and bolts 20 minute tutorial from Tim.
This new webpage from Cochrane UK is aimed at students of all ages. What is evidence-based practice? What is ‘best available research evidence’? Which resources will help you understand evidence and evidence-based practice, and search for evidence?