Package Description
- Are you a medical student or a medical practitioner?
- Want to know how to make good medical decisions in the nick of time?
- Want to develop an in-depth understanding of fundamental concepts in biostatistics and research and design?
- Are you looking for an online course regarding this?
If this is so then this is most certainly the right place for you and many others just like you. This package contains a course that has been designed in such a way that it can help make the learning process a lot easier for the users. If you are facing problems in grasping the basics then this course will turn out to be useful in accomplishing the intended objectives.
What is this course and what are the benefits of taking it?
This online course focuses on the medical practitioner’s responsibility to make sound decisions related to patient care based on genetics, epidemiology, information gathering and health assessment. Through this course, you will develop an in-depth understanding of fundamental concepts in biostatistics and research and design in order to effectively and systematically apply probabilistic reasoning to diagnostic issues that arise in clinical situations. Originally published as open courseware in 2012, this course is intended for first-year medical students with backgrounds in health and medicine.
Medical students, nurses or anyone else related with the field of medicine can benefit from this course.
In this module, students will:
- Construct well-defined clinical questions from case scenarios
- Make decisions regarding the use of diagnostic tests
- Understand the differences between foreground and background questions
- Become familiar with the U-M information environment, and learn to effectively search several core biomedical resources
- Develop an understanding of the basic foundations of biostatistics, research design and epidemiology
- Effectively and logically apply probabilistic reasoning to diagnostic questions
Author Bio
Rajesh Mangrulkar and Stephen Gruber will be the instructors for this course.
Quick Information
This billboard titled "Patients and Populations - Medical Decision-Making – The basics" was created by Rajesh Mangrulkar on 04 September 2013 and is available for Free. Current reach of this billboard is 717 users.
Price:Free
Availability:1 Week
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