FREE Quality Online Course on "Evidence-Based Medicine"

Thanks to Kathy Meade who writes the Prostate Cancer Advocacy and
Action blog for publicizing this. (See prostatecancerblog.org.)

You can now sign up for a FREE, high-quality online course on
"Evidence-Based Medicine" with materials put together by Johns Hopkins
to help you navigate the confounding world of medicine. The course
will help you understand research studies, evaluate statistics and
cope with information overload. You can also put this knowledge to
good use if you are a prostate cancer advocate or want to become one.
There are six modules (broken up into sections) which you can complete
at your pace. The entire course is a few hours. And there are lots of
pictures and cartoons.

"The course is being offered by TRAMS, the public health workforce
training management system for the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of
Public Health. With a TRAMS account, you are able to participate in
online training programs on a wide variety of public health topics.
Registration with the TRAMS system is free."

Click on:

http://distance.jhsph.edu/trams/ or prostatecancerblog.org

The six modules are:

* Module 1. INTRO: What is evidence-based healthcare and why is
it
important?
* Module 2. ASK: The importance of research questions in
evidence
based healthcare.
* Module 3. ALIGN: Research design, bias and levels of evidence.
* Module 4. ACQUIRE: Searching for healthcare information.
Assessing
harms and benefits.
* Module 5. APPRAISE: Behind the numbers: Understanding
healthcare
statistics. Science, speed and the search for best evidence.
* Module 6: APPLY: Critical appraisal and making better
decisions for
evidence-based healthcare, Determining causality.
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Don't miss out on this.

Leah

prostatecancerblog.net

New: "When you need to take off work for PC treatment: what to tell
people" (2 articles). Compare answer from the WSJ with my own
Couples and cancer: man's health depends on *woman'* stress level no
matter who has the cancer. Coming: capsaicin-rich hot tamale pie
recipe from a man in this group. Can you guess who?