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Activity Number: 226
Type: Invited
Date/Time: Tuesday, August 8, 2006 : 8:30 AM to 10:20 AM
Sponsor: Section on Teaching Statistics in the Health Sciences
Abstract - #305246
Title: Effective Teaching of Applied Biostatistics for Clinicians Enrolled in a Research Training Program
Author(s): Jodi Lapidus*+
Companies: Oregon Health & Science University
Address: Division of Biostatistics, Public Health, and Preventive Medicine, Portland, OR, 97239,
Keywords: introductory biostatistics ; health professionals ; health science training programs
Abstract:

The human investigations program and the master's program in clinical research are funded at Oregon Health & Science University by a K--30 training grant from NIH. Students primarily are clinicians (residents, fellows, and junior faculty) interested in launching research careers. Increasing enthusiasm, appreciation, and competency in biostatistics among health sciences professionals requires biostatistics faculty members to examine, and potentially alter, their teaching styles and course content. The 14-week introductory biostatistics course for these programs includes case-based examples from recent literature as motivators and a combination of examples, graphs, web applets, and laboratory data analysis sessions. Use of formulae and equations are kept to a minimum. We will discuss lessons learned and outline successful methods that can be adopted by others.

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