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Reading Medical Research

Read a paper in 15 minutes, judge whether to believe it, and decide if it changes your practice.

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What You Will Be Able to Do

  • Triage a paper quickly: what to read first, what to skip
  • Match study designs to the claims they can support
  • Translate statistics into plain-language effect sizes
  • Spot spin in abstracts and press releases
Sample Syllabus

Inside the Course

The final syllabus may evolve before launch, but this is the shape of it.

  1. 01

    The 15-Minute Read

    A fixed route through a paper that answers: should I keep reading.

  2. 02

    Designs and Claims

    PICO, RCTs, cohorts, case-control and what each can and cannot claim.

  3. 03

    Bias

    Selection, measurement, confounding and the usual suspects in clinical literature.

  4. 04

    Statistics in Plain Language

    p values, confidence intervals and effect sizes without the fog.

  5. 05

    Risk, Stated Honestly

    NNT, absolute versus relative risk, and why headlines mislead.

  6. 06

    Spotting Spin

    Abstract tricks, surrogate endpoints, subgroup fishing and press-release inflation.

  7. 07

    Paper to Practice

    A checklist for deciding when the evidence should change what you do.

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