What you’ll learn
- How to interpret and explain key health evidence using everyday language. This includes risk, odds, confidence intervals, p-values, and more
- Techniques for producing and comparing data in tables and charts
- How to understand the accuracy of health evidence
- Issues to consider when multiple comparisons are made on the same data
- Types of study designs and why they matter
- How much one can read into ‘statistically significant’ results and if they should dictate the insights drawn from the data or not
- What to consider if the reported results are not what you expect
Format
- Taught using real life examples, a live experiment, and visualisations to convey concepts, without overwhelming formulae or number crunching
- Delivered using a combination of presentations, group discussion, short videos and activities
- The focus will only be on interpreting and understanding health information, and will not be on calculating it
- There is time for questions throughout the course and a dedicated time at the end of each session for further questions and discussion on content of your choosing
- Note: online class size is limited to 6 participants for a personalised learning experience
Who it’s for
This course is suitable for anyone who wants to demystify health information and be more confident and comfortable conveying health data to others. This includes individuals:
- producing or interpreting health information in reports or journal articles
- struggling to convey health evidence to colleagues or patients using everyday language
- looking to advance their career options by increasing their data literacy
Instructor
Dr Nicole Mealing offers an approachable learning experience far removed from the university model, and tailored to people with little or no analytical experience.
This course is developed and taught harnessing over fifteen years of industry and teaching experience as a biostatistician. Among other organisations, Nicole has worked for NSW Health and Clinical Trials Unit Bern, and she has taught at almost every university in Sydney.
Learn more about Nicole and Simplify Stats.
Testimonials
Engaging, interactive, clear, plenty of time for questions.
Fun, it was good to have activities and to be in a small group to be able to ask questions and get detailed responses.
Already applying it [knowledge gained through this course] in better critical reading of articles, more careful analysis of the work I am doing and whether I am using numbers in a logical and correct way, and handling data in a way that will lead to useful and correct results
Good for an online course. Nicole was energetic, passionate and very personable.
Face-to-face, small groups, plenty of time for questions and a presenter who clearly cared about making sure we really understood and could apply this knowledge to our work.
Excellent. Nicole is a great communicator and educator.
I really enjoyed the course and found it interesting and useful. I’d certainly be interested in other courses offered by Simplify Stats for future professional development.