Clinical Research Certificate Programme

Aims

Course 1 in this program has two main goals. First, to provide the learner with an overview of the basic concepts most commonly used in medical literature and clinical research. Second, to provide a forum for health care professionals to acquire the basic skills needed to perform clinical research studies.

Modules

• Measurements in Clinical Research
• Sample Size Estimation
• Establishing Cause
• Study Designs
• Prognosis
• Clinical Trials
• Diagnosis

Audience

Health Care Professionals and students that strive to acquire skills on how to decipher the medical literature and to critically evaluate the medical literature in their field. Health Care Professionals that aim at performing clinical research studies.

Aims

Healthcare professionals and medical students need to be able to critically assess statistical method sections in journal publications in order to evaluate study conclusions. Furthermore, clinicians may want to perform their own statistical analyses and/or may wish to have a meaningful conversation with biostatisticians. All of this requires knowledge and skills of basic statistical analyses. Course 2 in this program aims to provide the healthcare professional with an understanding of statistical concepts and principles most commonly used in clinical research.

Modules

• Confidence Intervals
• Statistical Significance
• Multiple Comparisons
• Statistical Tests
• Regression Analyses
• Additional Tests
• Advice

Audience

Health Care Professionals and students that strive to acquire skills on statistical concepts and principles to critically assess the statistical methods presented in clinical research studies. Furthermore, Health Care Professionals involved in clinical research studies.

Aims

Courses 1 and 2 provided the learner with didactic background to critically decipher the clinical research literature and the basic statistical concepts used in clinical research. Course 3 will provide the healthcare professional with the skills to formulate a competitive research proposal and to successfully publish the study result. The main focus is on discussion of the key elements of a research study proposal. A general review of study design and more specifically on the design of clinical trials is also included. The last part of Course III focuses on writing a scientific research paper and presenting research results. The skills learned will then be applied in Course 4.

Modules

• The Research Proposal
• Review of General Study Designs
• Study Designs – Clinical and Randomised Clinical Trials
• Result Dissemination

Audience

Health Care Professionals and students that are involved in clinical research studies or are interested to pursue a clinical research as part of their career.

The Programme is centered around Voice-Annotated Presentations (VAP) that provide the material. These are online presentations that you can view at your own pace anytime, anywhere. The whole certificate program consists of three courses with assessments throughout the different courses to assess the learning process of the participants. Each course is structured into topic groups with VAPs and suggested reading materials, Multiple choice questions after each topic will gauge the acquired understanding of the material. After completion of each course the participant will earn a certificate.