Evidence-based Medicine I Course Guide (Archived): Week 4 10/2/18

Peer Tutoring Sessions:

• Literature Review - Writing Help
  • October 12th from 12-1 pm in the Regula Training Room. See the Learning Center AIMS site for more information.
• Statistics Calculations
  • November TBD from 12-1 pm. See the Learning Center AIMS site for more information.
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Literature Review Help Session - with Professor McEwen

• October 11th from 12-1 pm in room F-118.

The Learning Center has hired a part-time ESL tutor from Kent State University’s Teaching English as a Second Language (TESL) graduate program. This tutor, Amanda Balch, will collaborate with Learning Center staff, and faculty from both the COM and COP to offer one-on-one meetings to address students’ concerns with writing, communication, public speaking, field-specific vocabulary, and more.

Sessions will be held Tuesday and Thursday evenings throughout the academic year.

• You can sign up for a 30 minute session with Amanda, one-on-one, from 4:00-8:00 pm, while additional availability from 12-4 PM may become available as well. All sessions, including their specific location, are currently available for you to view and sign-up in AIMS.

We look forward to enhancing our support for ESL students throughout this semester and beyond. If you have any questions about these services, please contact Amanda Balch (abalch@neomed.edu).

EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE I

WEEK 4

October 2, 2018

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

• Practice questions for Dr. Baughman’s lecture are available. See the Resources folder --> Statistics practice questions folder.
• Optional Literature Review Help Session on October 11th from 12pm-1pm in room F-118.
• Optional Peer Writing Tutoring Session - October 12th from 12-1 pm in the Regula Training room. See the Learning Center AIMS site for more information.
• Quiz 2 Review Session with Dr. Baughman - October 15th from 12- 1 pm in the NEW Center Auditorium

UPCOMING ASSESSMENTS:

• Literature Review is due at 5 pm on October 16th. Submit your paper and your journal articles via your EBM I drop box in AIMS.
• Statistics/research design quiz on October 16^th
• Statistics quiz on October 30^th
• Exam on November 20^th 

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TOPIC: Therapy (Inferential Statistics and Hypothesis Testing)

FACULTY: Kristin Baughman, Ph.D.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

AT THE END OF THE LECTURE, STUDENTS WILL BE ABLE TO:

• Describe the process of generating confidence intervals for normally-distributed data
• Explain how confidence intervals for odds ratios can be used to compare different therapeutic options
• Define Null and alternative hypotheses
• Describe Type I and Type II errors and how they relate to p-values
• Describe when you would use the following tests: t-test, paired t-test, ANOVA

BRING TO CLASS: Your laptop and clicker

ASSIGNED READING: None

SUPPLEMENTAL READING:

• Basic & Clinical Biostatistics e-book, Chapter 4 – http://crusher.neomed.edu/record=b1109364~S0

CLASS RESOURCES:

• Evidence Based Medicine I course guide - http://libraryguides.neomed.edu/EBM_I_Course

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE: This class’s material will be covered on Quiz 2 on October 16^th.