A new semester, time for new cool stuff. I am starting a Epi Journal Club for medical students. Here is the recruitment text.
Do you want to learn how to read medical literature?
What is a Kaplan Meier Curve? What is the difference between a case-control study and a case-cohort study? How do you get rid of confounding? What is confounding anyway! Or just in short, what distinguishes a good paper from a bad paper? Do you want to know? Here is a start:
Bob Siegerink is a clinical epidemiologist from the Centrum für Schlaganfallforschung Berlin (CSB) and he is starting a journal club for medical students (5th semester and up) where participants will be discussing both good and bad papers from both ancient and recent history. Although there is no previous experience needed, students have to be highly motivated as this is a fun, but hardcore, crash course in clinical epidemiology. All discussion will be held in English.
I have no clue on how many student will react: the deadline is soon, but this text will end up in the inbox of a lot of students. And as the level of science education in their curricula is limited compared to the Dutch curricula, they might not be triggered by this topic. Or they will… Who knows? I will use some of my previous teaching material, but I guess I need to adapt the content based on the number of participants and their level or knowledge, so everything is possible. I will keep you posted!
– update 18-4-2015: 11 participants… not bad for a first time! we start in 10 days. For the programme, click here
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