MED 183 — مقدمة في البحث والطب المبني على الدليل
السنة 1 · 17 محاضرة · 3 ساعة معتمدة
العناوين والأهداف منقولة من خطة كلية الطب الرسمية.
1. Introduction to research in health sciences
Research and Evidence-Based Medicine
- Understand the concept of research and its importance.
- Understand aims of conducting research, steps of conducting a study and the difference between good studies and poor studies.
2. Introduction to Biostatistics
Research and Evidence-Based Medicine
- Define the concept of biostatistics and its importance in conducting research.
- Describe applications of biostatistics with examples in the medical field and other fields.
- Know how does a biostatistician work with physicians and other scientists?
3. Basic concepts in Biostatistics
Research and Evidence-Based Medicine
- Understand data and measurements: definitions, tools to collect.
- Know types of scientific data: discrete, dichotomous, continuous, nominal, ordinal, interval, ratio.
- Define concepts of sample, population, variables, and variability.
- Know types of variables in general and variables in a study (i.e. independent, dependent).
4. Data
Research and Evidence-Based Medicine
- Describe how to represent data with different types of distributions: normal, binomial.
- Know the concepts of sample size, missing data, outliers and how missing data and outliers affect our results.
5. Measures of centrality and dispersion
Research and Evidence-Based Medicine
- Apply measures of tendency and to compute them: Mean, Median, Mode.
- Apply measures of variability and their relation to sample size and measurement precision: variance, standard deviation, coefficient of variation, range.
6. Probability and Screening
Research and Evidence-Based Medicine
- Identify and use appropriate rule of probability for a dataset: additive, multiplicative, binomial expansion.
- Comprehend conditional probability and the use of screening tests in medical studies: sensitivity, specificity, PPV, NPV.
7. Hypothesis testing
Research and Evidence-Based Medicine
- State a null hypothesis for a proposed treatment and be able to interpret the results of rejecting or not rejecting a null.
- Describe type 1 and 2 errors.
- Describe levels of significance and critical values.
- Interpret p-values.
8. Epidemiology and Medicine
Research and Evidence-Based Medicine
- Define concepts of epidemiology, an epidemiologist, and disease occurrence.
- Know the emergence of epidemiology and applications of epidemiology.
- Understand why epidemiology is essential in medicine.
9. Epidemiological Measures of Disease Occurrence
Research and Evidence-Based Medicine
- Apply epidemiological measures of disease occurrence.
- Know the use of disease occurrence measures.
- Compute prevalence and incidence.
10. Contrast Measures
Research and Evidence-Based Medicine
- Compute differences, ratios, attributable proportions, 2x2 tables, and measures of associations.
11. Research Design
Research and Evidence-Based Medicine
- Recognize different study designs.
- Know how to design a study.
- Describe components of a research design: problem, hypothesis, questions, variables, methods, analysis.
12. Experimental Study Designs
Research and Evidence-Based Medicine
- Know what and why randomized clinical trials (RCTs) are the gold standard.
- Recognize the advantages and disadvantages of RCTs.
- Know other experimental designs.
13. Cohort Studies and Case-Control
Research and Evidence-Based Medicine
- Describe of each study design.
- Know the advantages and disadvantages of each design.
14. Cross-Sectional and Case reports
Research and Evidence-Based Medicine
- Describe of each study design.
- Know the advantages and disadvantages of each design.
15. Introduction on EBM
Research and Evidence-Based Medicine
- Know what is evidence-based medicine (EBM)?
- Understand the rationale for an evidence-based approach to clinical practice.
- Weight the evidence of studies: quantitative and qualitative and rank studies: Systematic reviews, RCT, Cohort, etc.
16. Medical Journal articles and credible websites
Research and Evidence-Based Medicine
- Understand the importance of using reputable journals for evidence.
- Know how to recognize trusted and high-ranking journals.
- Know how to use JUST-library website and other reputable sources such as PubMed for extraction of medical research.
- Comprehend the importance of reading articles in developing a career.
17. Reading Articles
Research and Evidence-Based Medicine
- Describe the components of articles: Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusions.
- Know how to critically read an article?