READ CLINICAL PAPERS WITH CONFIDENCE

The Critical Appraisal Company

Critical AppraisalWorkshop

A comprehensive and practical overview of everything you need to understand and appraise clinical papers with

confidence, with exercises using real clinical papers.

CRITICAL APPRAISAL WORKSHOP

www.CriticalAppraisal.com

The Critical Appraisal Workshop provides a comprehensive overview of everything you need to understand and appraise clinical papers with confidence.

Our expert tutors will teach critical appraisal from first principles, assuming no prior knowledge. They will guide you through presentations and exercises designed to illustrate key points. You will test your understanding with short exercises on excerpts from clinical papers, longer exercises on real clinical papers and questions using our interactive digital handset technology.

The workshop is suitable for doctors, dentists, pharmacists, nurses, medical librarians, medical researchers and students. The workshop offers the opportunity to not only learn how to critically appraise clinical papers but to practice these new skills under supervision.

Become an expert in two days!

By the end of the workshop, you will

� understand the meaning of evidence-based medicine and the importance of critical appraisal skills

� be able to identify different study designs

� be able to evaluate the methodology of any study for strengths and weaknesses

� understand how to choose a statistical test to analyse data and be able to interpret the results of any study

� be able to calculate clinically useful statistics from results data

� be able to decide whether to change clinical practice based on the results of a study

Outstanding value for money!

The workshop fee for London events is £395. This includes two workbooks, CPD certificate of attendance (12 hours), refreshments and lunch.

You will receive complimentary access to the Critical Appraisal Online Course from the time of booking to 6 months after the workshop date, worth £125. The online course includes the core teaching materials.

At the workshop you will also be given The Doctor’s Guide to Critical Appraisal (4th edition, 2015) - the award-winning textbook written by the course tutors and published by PasTest, worth £23.

Workshop places are limited!

Reserve your place at www.CriticalAppraisal.com today!

2016 dates (UK)30-31 January, 27-28 February, 9-10 April, 14-15 May, 11-12 June, 16-17 July, 13-14 August, 17-18 September, 22-23 October, 12-13 November, 10-11 December

Real clinical papers are appraised in the workshop, including examples of the following types of studiesCase-control study Randomised controlled trialCohort / survival study Diagnostic study Systematic review / meta-analysis

Workshop topics includeTypes of studiesPopulations and samplesSample size and powerInclusion and exclusion criteriaBias and confoundingRandomisation and allocationBlinding and placebosReliability and validityIntention-to-treat analysisIncidence and prevalenceMeans, medians, modesNull hypothesis and P valuesType 1 and type 2 errorsChoosing statistical testsRisks and oddsNumbers needed to treatCorrelation and regressionSystematic reviewsMeta-analysesForest plots and funnel plotsHomogeneity/heterogeneityNon-inferiority/equivalenceDiagnostic studiesSensitivity & specificityPre/post-test probabilitiesROC curvesPrognostic studiesKaplan Meier survival graphsand more!