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Medical YouTube Videos and Methods of Evaluation

Medical YouTube Videos and Methods of Evaluation

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Drozd B, Couvillon E, Suarez A. Medical YouTube Videos and Methods of Evaluation: Literature Review. JMIR medical education. 2018 Jan;4(1). Do your patients check YouTube videos for getting health information? The answer is a most likely "Yes". Not only would they get them directly on YouTube, but their friends would forward them YouTube links too. How many of them think about the authenticity / quality of these videos? And if they did, how many would know how to evaluate them and then make a decision to view them? Here is a review article where the authors have identified 37 studies…
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Short Courses on Biostatistics

Short Courses on Biostatistics

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The Biostatistics Resource and Training Center, Department of Biostatistics at Christian Medical College, Vellore is organizing its thirty-sixth Short course in Biostatistics from April 17-24, 2018 at CMC Vellore. The course is designed to introduce the principles of biostatistics, basics of epidemiological research and statistical procedures. It also intended to train researchers to calculate sample size in a simple manner using "nMaster 2.0" software. This course is targeted towards researchers of varied profession such as medicine, public health, life sciences, social sciences, nursing, epidemiology, biostatistics etc. Sr. No. Course Date Last date for Registration 1 Fundamentals of Biostatistics, Principles of Epidemiology…
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Literature searching and the ideal researcher

Literature searching and the ideal researcher

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A student, academician or a practitioner of any health sciences stream often needs to search the literature. An ideal researcher should spend a small percentage of time in this activity, and much more on the main research and writing. What is the profile of an ideal researcher in this context?  Someone who has the "information needs", clearly laid out.  Before searching the literature, one has to document the information need clearly. We need to identify literature to reference in the a) introduction and discussion areas, and b) literature that would be closest to our main area of work. The literature…
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