Staff Professional Development

Sessions

The ability to conduct effective clinical simulation research requires several skills including familiarity with the principles of epidemiology and the fundamentals of statistical analysis. The following 11 presentations/sessions form a self-paced module aimed at developing the research skills of ATACS Center staff with an emphasis on epidemiology and biostatistics. Each session is supported by material found in the following textbook: Epidemiology: An Introduction, 2^nd edition, by Kenneth J. Rothman, Oxford University Press, 2012.

• Syllabus - Research Curriculum
• Session 1 - Scientific inference
• Session 2 - Measures of disease frequency
• Session 3 - Measures of effect
• Session 4 - Cross-sectional studies
• Session 5 - Case-control studies
• Session 6 - Cohort studies
• Session 7 - Clinical trials
• Session 8 - Bias
• Session 9 - P-values
• Session 10 - Stratified analysis
• Session 11 - Linear and logistic regression