The course is made up of two postgraduate units Emergency Medicine Research Methods and Evidence Based Medicine (12 credit points).
Research Methods
This subject covers:
- Introduction to research methods used in observational studies
- Practical skills required in the design and assessmentof a research project
- Protocol design, including study type selection, introduction to questionnaire design, sampling methods, and ethics approval
- Planning data management and statictical analysis and developing a study budget
- Introduction to research methods used in observational studies
- Practical skills required in the design and assessment of a research project
- Protocol design, including study type selection, introduction to questionnaire design,
- Planning data management and statistical analysis and developing a study budget
- Introduction to the role of qualitative research
- Formulating answerable clinical questions
- Scientific literaure searches
- Critical appraisal of scientific literature and evidence based guidelines
- Application of research to clinical practice
- Barriers to changing practice
- Introduction to PICO
- Choosing a study design
- Introduction to statistics for research
- Subject selection
- Measurement
- Bias and confounding
- Trials in critical care; statistical issues
- Data input & management
- Diagnostic tests; research ethics
- Funding; and qualitative methods
- Introduction to EBM
- Asking answerable question
- Research designs
- Searching the literature
- P values and Confidence Intervals
- Interpreting data
- Data Quality and missing data
- Bias and confounding
- Critically appraising studies of therapy
- Critical appraising studies of harm
- Critical appraising studies of diagnosis
- Understanding systematic reviews
- Critically appraising studies of prognosis
Dr Eleanor Junckerstorff
Emergency Physician, The Alfred Emergency & Trauma Centre and Sandringham Hospital, Alfred Health
Dr Carl Luckoff
Emergency Physician and Deputy Director in Emergency, Alfred Health.
Dr Amit Maini
Director – Emergency Medicine Training, The Alfred Emergency & Trauma Centre, Alfred Health
Dr David McCreary
Emergency Physician, The Alfred Emergency & Trauma Centre, Alfred Health
Dr Rob Mitchell
Emergency Physician, Alfred Emergency & Trauma Centre, Alfred Health
A/Prof Biswadev Mitra
Head, Clinical Research, National Trauma Research Institute & Consultant Emergency Physician, Alfred Health
$4,550.00 per person
Course fee includes all required learning resources.
TERMS AND CONDITIONS
TRANSFER
If you are no longer able to attend this course you may transfer the fees to the next available date.
If you are no longer able to attend this course you may transfer course fees to another person without
penalty. All transfer requests must be made in writing.
Cancellation more than 30 days before the event: 70% refund.
Cancellation less than 30 days: no refund.
Cancellation must be in writing.
Emergency Medicine Research Course
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Melbourne 3004 Victoria
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Address
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