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Learn to pass FRCEM Critical Appraisal in one day!
After having completed our course, you will have attained the skills to:
Amazing price!
Most importantly we can help you to pass the FRCEM exam!
We have an over 95% pass rate
Although prior revision of critical appraisal will be valuable (as well as practice papers after the course),
we aim to teach everything from basic principles up to a level necessary to pass the exam.
This course runs throughout the year and is online to take at your own pace in the comfort of your own room!
Cost: £200
Sample Agenda
- 08:45 - 09:00 Coffee & Registration
- 09:00 - 09:15 Welcome and Introduction
- 09:15 - 11:00 Introduction to critical appraisal - Why does it matter?
- 11:00 - 11:15 Coffee break
- 11:15 - 13:00 Blinding & Randomisation, Validity and Reliability
- 13:00 - 13:45 Lunch
- 13:45 - 15:15 Statistical terminology, Intention to treat Risk and Odds
- 15:15 - 15:30 Coffee break
- 15:30 - 16:45 Significance Sensitivity and Specificity, Abstract Writing
- 16:45 - 17:00 Feedback and close
Topics covered in the course:
- Trial types
- Consort
- Different types of bias
- Intervention vs observation
- Confounding factors
- Blinding
- Randomisation
- The placebo effect
- Validity and reliability
- Surrogate outcomes
- Satistical terminology
- Intention to treat
- Risk and odds
- The normal distribution
- The null hypothesis
- Statistical significance
- Different statistical tests
- Correlation coefficients
- Regression
- Funnel plots
- Study types
- Sensitivity and specificity
- 2x2 contingency tables
- Liklihood ratios
- Fagan nomograms
- Applicability
- The ROC curve
- Kappa
- Kaplan-meier curves
- QALYs