General Resources

Work-Life Efficiency

• Insights into Residency Training from NEJM

• Overcome Academic Challenges with Productivity Tools

• Tips to Improve Productivity

Critical Appraisal

Where to Start Your Search for the Evidence

• McMaster ACCESSS

  • “ACCESSSS provides "one-stop" access to pre-appraised evidence to address this key question: What is the current best evidence available to support clinical decisions?”

Quantitative

• General Guidelines

  • An overview of clinical research: the lay of the land

  • Epidemiology for the uninitiated

  • Descriptive studies: what they can and cannot do

  • Integrating research care with the individual patient

  • Biostatistics primer (a really useful tool to review biostatistics and provide hands-on lessons with corresponding short statistical assignments in the free statistical environment, R)—please follow this link to the Children's Hospital Research Institute of Manitoba (CHRIM)

• Case Control

  • Case-control studies: research in reverse

• Cohort

  • Cohort studies: marching towards outcomes

  • Bias and causal associations in observational research

• Clinical Trials

  • Part 1 – Design and physiological statistics

  • Part 2 – Design and Reporting in Pediatric Trials

  • Part 3 – Generation of allocation

  • Part 4 – Allocation Concealment

  • Part 5 – Blinding

  • Part 6 – Intention to Treat

  • Part 7 – Understanding the Number Needed to Treat

• Systematic Reviews

  • Standard Systematic Review and Meta Analysis

  • Systematic Review and Network Meta-Analysis

  • Steps for Conducting Your Own Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

• Prognosis

  • Interpreting Studies of a Diagnostic Test

  • Interpreting Diagnostic Tests

  • Examples for How Best to Learn About Studies of Diagnostic Tests

• Mendelian Randomization

  • Design, Analysis, and Interpretation of Mendelian Randomization Studies

• Strategies to Address Bias in Observational Studies

  • Adjusted Analyses

  • Mendelian Randomization

Qualitative

• General Guidelines

  • Appraising Qualitative Research

  • Tool for Assessing a Qualitative Study

  • Introduction to Qualitative Research

  • Introduction to Qualitative Research Methods

  • Sample Size Considerations in Qualitative Studies

Quality Improvement

• IHI Open School