Making sense of medical research reporting in the media

This hands-on workshop will cover the common types of health research methods that deal with therapies, and how that research is used to develop national guideline recommendations.

It will also cover basic statistical measures of treatment effect. We will work through some examples of recent health articles to demonstrate the points covered and provide the basis for discussion.

Our presenter, Dr Michael Allen, has an MSc in Community Health and Epidemiology and has taught evidence-based medicine to physicians and medical students through his work for Dalhousie University Faculty of Medicine.

[Please note that we will be discussing articles about treatment, not diagnosis or screening which is a separate topic.]