1.6 Science in practice:
Applying research for clinicians
(online course)
Are you interested in sports medicine research? Do you read scientific articles and would you like to take your analysis to the next level?
The Running Clinic has created this online training course for you! Through various modules, Jean-Francois Esculier (physiotherapist, PhD, Director of Research and Development at The Running Clinic) will introduce key concepts that will help you integrate evidence-based data into your clinical practice.
There are no prerequisites for this course. Both beginners and seasoned professionals will acquire tools to guide their patients toward the most effective treatments and get the best clinical results based on applied research! No useless jargon, only concepts that are accessible and useful, explained by a clinician-scientist. Don't miss out on this opportunity!
(N.B. No prerequisite. Self-directed learning. This course includes an exam assessing knowledge acquisition and integration. The 11 modules represent 8 hours of online learning.)
Course Objectives
After the course, participants will be able to, based on the most recent scientific evidence:
- understand the basic history and purpose of medical research and the fundamental principles of an evidence-based clinical practice;
- understand what information is necessary to search the literature;
- design a Population-Intervention-Comparison-Outcome (PICO) question and a search strategy in PubMed;
- apply a search strategy to a clinical situation;
- understand the structure and main components of a scientific article;
- know the main steps of the peer-review process;
- differentiate reputable and predatory journals;
- master the different levels of evidence in medical research
- interpret results from multiple study designs, and differentiate how they inform clinical practice;
- understand which behaviours should be preferred for optimal critical thinking about evidence;
- assess the internal and external validity of a scientific article;
- differentiate between causation and correlation;
- distinguish and understand the structure, content and implications of a cross-sectional study and a prospective study;
- explore measures of association between variables and their clinical implications by analysing a scientific article;
- understand what diagnostic tests are better based on their psychometric properties;
- elaborate a diagnostic clinical decision-making process based on different tests;
- understand the structure, content and implications of a diagnostic study by analysing a scientific article;
- understand the hierarchy of evidence for intervention studies, and the clinical implications of each design;
- know the elements of an intervention study that reduce its risk of bias;
- understand the structure, content and implications of a randomised controlled trial by analysing a scientific article;
- understand the importance of outcome measures, including patient-reported outcome measures;
- determine which outcome measures are better based on their psychometric properties;
- understand the structure, content and implications of a study on outcome measures by analysing a scientific article;
- differentiate between the types of literature reviews, and their implications;
- understand the structure and content of a systematic review and meta-analysis by analysing a scientific article;
- learn different ways to get involved in research as a clinician; and
- understand the research process from the research idea to the dissemination of the results of the study.
Total learning time = 8 hours