About the Course

There are six "modules" that present the essence of biostatistics to help healthcare professionals to be better consumers and communicators of the medical literature. This material has also been used to educate pharmaceutical salespersons, marketers and others who need to understand and communicate medical data.

For each module, there is a video, powerpoint slides, a handout reviewing key definitions and for several modules, a published article from the Wisconsin Medical Journal. The lecture slides also contain discussion questions/problems to reinforce key concepts. Nearly all of the PowerPoint slides have extensive notes in the "notes section" to enhance learning. The videos, lecture slides, and papers cover essentially the same material facilitating learning by all learning modalities. Moreover, the discussion questions can facilitate group learning.

These modules were developed using many of the principles from cognitive neuroscience (e.g. Brown et al., Make it Stick: the science of successful learning. Cambridge (MA): Belknap.) such as: retrieval-based learning, spaced repetition, interleaving, frequent testing, and self-explanation.