Understanding Evidence

Summary

This two day course will provide you with the tools to critically process and analyse medical scientific literature through a good understanding of basic statistical concepts and theories.

You will learn about the construction of a scientific article and how to distinguish between “good” and “bad” science.

After this course, you will be able to understand, evaluate and explain the evidence of a publication to colleagues or stakeholders.

Other course participants say

"The course helped me read articles independentlyand discuss them with the specialists. We covered a review of statistical methods, the structure of an article, p-values, etc.  It was extremely useful."

Anette Fog Jørgensen, Therapy Area Manager Vacciner & HIV, MSD Denmark ApS

"The course is relevant if you work with evaluating the evidence of scientific articles and studies. The speakers were skilled at communicating the difficult content and the teaching materials were also good"

Nina Uldal, Manager, Amgros I/S

“I can use what I learned a lot in my daily work.”

Lotte Jørgensen, Key Account Manager, Chiesi Pharma AB

"It's an inspiring and informative course. I didn't have much experience in reading and understanding studies in detail, but I have learnt a lot that I can use in my daily work. I definitely recommend this course."

Christina Lund, Key Account Manager, Novo Nordisk A/S

Keywords

• Medical scientific literature
• Basic statistical concepts
• “Good” and “bad” science
• Evidence