Designing Clinical Research Workshop

1 unit

Designing Clinical Research Workshop is a new eight-week course developed by Dr. Piccirillo, and is based on the Designing Clinical Research Course developed by Dr. Hulley and colleagues at the University of California - San Francisco School of Medicine. The course is taught in conjunction with the textbook, Designing Clinical Research, 2nd Edition (Hulley et al, Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins, 2001). The goal of the course is to teach the methods of clinical investigation to physicians and other health professionals. The main part of the course runs in seven sessions, with a lot of active homework and two hours a week in class. Topics include: The Anatomy and Physiology of Clinical Research; Conceiving the Research Questions; Choosing the Subjects: Specification, Sampling & Recruitment; Planning the Measurements: Precision and Accuracy; Getting Ready to Estimate Sample Size: Hypotheses & Underlying Principles; Estimating Sample Size and Power; Designing an Observational Study - cohort, cross-sectional, and case-control studies; Enhancing Causal Inference in Observational Studies; Designing an Experiment - clinical trials; Designing Diagnostic and Prognostic Test Studies; Secondary Data Analysis; Designing Questionnaires and Data Collection Instruments; Implementing the Study; Data management; and Writing and Funding a Research Protocol. Open to CRTC Predoctoral Program scholars only.