Example Courses:
I, and others, have used the material in a pick and mix manner to create courses of various lengths, and different perspectives, from a one afternoon very basic level course to several MSc level modules for sample:
| Title | url | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Basic statistics | www.robin-beaumont.co.uk/virtualclassroom/stats/precourse.html | Very basic statistical knowledge - the sort you learnt at school explaining the mean, median, mode, bar charts & the standard deviation and variance. |
| Essential medical statistics | www.robin-beaumont.co.uk/virtualclassroom/stats/course1.html
and Youtube videos at http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9F0EBD42C0AB37D0 |
Comparing two groups, risks and obtaining the line of best fit and getting to grops with effect size measures, confidence intervals and P values |
| Advanced medical statistics | www.robin-beaumont.co.uk/virtualclassroom/stats/course2.html and Youtube videos at http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL05FC4785D24C6E68 |
Comparing multiple groups and situations where you have repeated measures, survival analysis and clustered data. Also looks at how to reduce and restructure a number of variables (factor analysis) |
| Introduction to databases using (free) Libreoffice Base | http://www.robin-beaumont.co.uk/virtualclassroom/chap8/libreoffice_base.html | A interactive introduction to databases which includes you learning a little of the standard language used to interrogate them. Uses a free database which can connect to all the common commercial ones. |
| Healthcare systems - getting to grips with stating your requirements using UML | http://www.robin-beaumont.co.uk/virtualclassroom/edin_cl1/index.html | Reviews the types of healthcares systems in common use and provides hands on experience using the standard technique used by systems developers (UML) to specifiy systems - enables clinicans to effectively engage in systems development |
| Healthcare systems development and evaluation methods - human issues | http://www.robin-beaumont.co.uk/virtualclassroom/edin_cl2/index.html | Provides the managerial knowledge and skills to enable clinicans to effectively engage in healthcare systems development and evaluation |
| Communication in the clinical consultation | http://www.robin-beaumont.co.uk/virtualclassroom/dprom/web/index.html | A detailed course enabling clinicans to analyse their own and others clinical consultations and develop tools that enable them to continually re-evaluate. |
Other course where I have used the material include:
The wide range of material available means that you can design courses ranging from the purely IT oriented to the psychological/sociological. I personally have always tried to develop courses with a range of perspectives.
Places that have informed me they have used the material on this site include:
Obtaining the free software to read the pdf files:
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Contacting me:
Please feel free to contact me via e-mail: robin@organplayers.co.uk or tel. England 0191 2731150 either if you want to use the material or have any suggestions for enhancements etc.