Beginner’s Course: Clinical Research Methods

This two-day intensive course is aimed at training busy healthcare professionals, researchers, and students on knowledge and skills necessary to understand important concepts in health research, and be able to conduct simple analysis independently using basic software.

The price of the course is $500.

Prerequisites: None

Ways to Attend: Due to the current situation, our courses will be only offered through ZOOM video conferencing. Once registration and payment are received, participants will receive a ZOOM meeting invitation to join the scheduled class.

Date and Time: TBD

This course will focus on providing hands-on competency with respect to the most common introductory statistical procedures used in clinical research. At the end of the course, participants will be able to perform independently and interpret results of the following statistical procedures using SAS software:

• Two sample t-test
• Paired sample t-test
• One sample t-test
• Chi-squared test
• Fisher’s exact test
• McNemar’s test
• Correlation
• Simple Linear Regression
• One-way ANOVA

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• "I'll make sure I come to every one of your different courses."-
• "I am faculty, and I strongly believe that all residents and fellows need to take this course . It is so empowering!"
• "Even if you are not going to run the data yourself, the mere fact that you can establish a meaningful conversation with your statistician after taking this course is priceless."
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