ClinCalc Academy is excited to announce the launch of our newest online, video-based course — Biostatistics Rx. This course is designed specifically for busy healthcare professionals who want to transform their understanding of biostatistics and literature evaluation.
Announcing Biostatistics Rx – A New Online Course
Why Biostatistics Rx?
Understanding and interpreting biostatistics and clinical trials are essential skills for all healthcare professionals. Evidence-based practice is constantly changing and healthcare professionals need to stay up to date to make the most informed, evidence-based decisions for their patients.
Unfortunately, the majority of healthcare providers and health sciences faculty cannot correctly answer basic questions about these topics. Analyzing statistical power, interpreting p-values and confidence intervals, explaining a relative risk, and describing limitations and biases of certain clinical trial designs are all difficult concepts to grasp but are essential for evaluating evidence-based literature.
The Biostatistics Rx Online Course
This online course is specifically designed to bridge the gap between the need to build the essential skill of interpreting evidence-based literature and the obvious deficit that most healthcare professionals have in this skill.
Our comprehensive online course features 35 HD videos designed to target the most important biostatistics and literature evaluation concepts in a simple, easy-to-understand format. Frequent, low-stakes assessment quizzes and exams with over 100 comprehension questions are used to ensure a rock-solid understanding of the content.
The entire course is optimized to follow the best practices of teaching and learning, including short video lengths, frequent assessment, and PowerPoint slide design to create an engaging, optimized learning environment.
The course content is organized into the following modules:
- Introduction and Course Overview
- Descriptive Statistics
- Intro to Inferential Statistics
- Hypothesis Testing
- Measuring Data Relationships
- Study Design and Evaluation
Who Should Take Biostatistics Rx?
Biostatistics Rx is designed for any healthcare professional or student who needs to improve their understanding of biostatistics and ability to interpret clinical trials.
Although this course is targeted to a variety of healthcare professionals, a significant number of learners use this course to prepare for the national pharmacy licensure exam (NAPLEX) and pharmacy BPS specialty certifications, including:
- Pharmacotherapy (BCPS)
- Ambulatory Care Pharmacy (BCACP)
- Cardiology Pharmacy (BCCP)
- Compounded Sterile Preparations Pharmacy (BCSCP)
- Critical Care Pharmacy (BCCCP)
- Emergency Medicine Pharmacy (BCEMP)
- Geriatric Pharmacy (BCGP)
- Infectious Diseases Pharmacy (BCIDP)
- Nutrition Support Pharmacy (BCNSP)
- Oncology Pharmacy (BCOP)
- Pediatric Pharmacy (BCPPS)
- Psychiatric Pharmacy (BCPP)
- Solid Organ Transplantation Pharmacy (BCTXP)
Take Our Free 10-Question Practice Exam for Biostatistics and Medical Literature Evaluation ✏
The Biostatistics Rx online course includes more than 100 comprehension questions embedded within modules, at the end of each module, and as a final exam.
Take a moment to test your current knowledge of biostatistics and interpretation of evidence-based medicine principles with this free, 10-question practice exam:
Free Cheat Sheet Guides and Sample Videos
Check out the Biostatistics Rx course page for free access to two “cheat sheet” guides for epidemiologic statistic calculations and inferential statistical tests.
The Biostatistics Rx page also contains several sample videos from the course, including p-values, hypothesis testing means of two groups, and superiority/non-inferiority trial designs:
About the Course Instructor
Sean Kane, PharmD, BCPS received his Doctor of Pharmacy degree from Butler University in 2010. In 2011, he completed a PGY-1 pharmacy practice residency, and in 2012 he received board certification in pharmacotherapy and completed a PGY-2 critical care residency at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Dr. Kane worked as a critical care pharmacist for more than a decade before transitioning to academia full-time. Currently, Dr. Kane is an Associate Professor in the Department of Pharmacy Practice at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science in North Chicago, Illinois and is the Senior Associate Dean and Associate Dean for Assessment.
As part of his teaching role, Dr. Kane provides more than 100 hours per year of classroom instruction on a wide variety of topics ranging from cardiovascular pharmacotherapy to medical literature evaluation.
Enroll in Biostatistics Rx
Are you ready to develop a rock-solid foundational understanding of biostatistics and medical literature evaluation? Improve your patient care skills by understanding and implementing evidence-based medicine in your practice with Biostatistics Rx.
