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Overview
The Understanding Medical Research - Your Facebook Friend is Wrong offered by Coursera in partnership with Yale 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.
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
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Visit programme websiteProgramme Structure
Courses include:
- Welcome!
- The Basics
- Medical Statistics Made Ridiculously Simple
- Types of Medical Studies
- How Wrong Conclusions Are Reached
- Bias
- Fixing the Problems with Medical Studies
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Duration
- Part-time
- 1 months
- 5 hrs/week
Start dates & application deadlines
You can apply for and start this programme anytime.
Language
English
Delivered
Online
Disciplines
Medicine Educational Research View 39 other Short Courses in Medicine in United StatesExplore more key information
Visit programme websiteAcademic requirements
We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.
English requirements
We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.
Other requirements
General requirements
- Beginner Level
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Funding
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