Type: Online Tutorial

Level: Basic

Description: Overview of Meta Analysis, Systematic Review, Practice Guideline, Randomized Controlled Trial, Cohort Study, Case Control Study, Case Reports

Continuing Education Credits: N/A

Type: Archive of Video and Handouts from Course

Level: Basic

Description: The Introduction to the Principles and Practice of Clinical Research (IPPCR) is a study curriculum on how to effectively conduct clinical research. The program trains researchers in how to design a successful clinical trial by focusing on epidemiologic methods, study design, protocol preparation, patient monitoring, quality assurance, and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issues. Other areas covered include data management and ethical issues, including protection of human subjects.

Continuing Education Credits: N/A

Type: PowerPoint & Lecture Materials

Level: Basic

Description: Introduction to Biostatistics provides an introduction to selected important topics in biostatistical concepts and reasoning. This course represents an introduction to the field and provides a survey of data and data types. Specific topics include tools for describing central tendency and variability in data; methods for performing inference on population means and proportions via sample data; statistical hypothesis testing and its application to group comparisons; issues of power and sample size in study designs; and random sample and other study types. While there are some formulae and computational elements to the course, the emphasis is on interpretation and concepts.

Continuing Education Credits: N/A

Type: PowerPoint presentation, Lecture Materials

Level: Basic

Description: Focus on Health Policy and Management, including economics, politics, ethics and medical care.

Continuing Education Credits: N/A

Type: Online Course for Principal Investigators

Level: Intermediate

Description: The web-based Clinical Research Training On-Line Course for Principal Investigators addresses one of the essential standards (training and education) approved by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for performing clinical research in the Intramural Research Program.

Topics covered by the Course:
• Ethical Issues in Human Subjects Research
• Roles and Responsibilities of the Investigator
• Roles and Responsibilities of the Institution
• Regulatory Issues
• Clinical Investigators and the Mass Media

Continuing Education Credits: N/A

Type: Online Tutorial

Level: Basic

Description: This workbook is designed to complement the other materials in the NCI Clinical Trials Education Series. Each section of this workbook features information about different aspects of clinical trials, usually followed by an exercise or questions.

Continuing Education Credits: N/A

Type: Blackboard Presentation

Level: Basic

Description: Summarize the key motivating forces that led to comparative effectiveness research. Define comparative effectiveness research. Describe the legislation in the United States that has contributed to the growth of comparative effectiveness research. List key methods used in comparative effectiveness research.

Continuing Education Credits: Yes (1 Credit)

Type: Blackboard Presentation

Level: Basic

Description: 1. The role for cost-effetiveness in decision making and how it varies by perspective 2. Why it is important to use incremental outcomes 3. How to choose appropriate comparators 4. Where to draw the line in interpeting results

Continuing Education Credits: Yes (1 Credit)

Type: Educational Document

Level: Intermediate

Description: IRB guidelines for detailed analysis of structures and stages of research. Topics discussed include implementation and incremental study.

Continuing Education Credits: N/A

Type: Educational Series

Level: Intermediate

Description: Addresses statistical issues in trial design, interpreting statistics in medical literature, methods for statistical analyses, and data and safety monitoring boards.

Continuing Education Credits: N/A