Medical Research in the Time of COVID-19 - Making Sense of Health Reporting
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Masks? Hydroxychloroquine? Vitamin D? Remdesivir?
It seems that many people who had previously rarely given a second thought to medical research have recently become "experts" in the field of infectious disease treatment and control.
This session will cover the common types of health research methods, design of studies, and how results lead to health guidelines and recommendations. We will use this information to review some recent media articles about COVID-19.
Bio:
Michael Allen practiced as a family physician in Nova Scotia for 17 years before joining Dalhousie University Faculty of Medicine in the Division of Continuing Professional Development. He 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. Now mostly retired, he has lived in Ottawa since 2013.