Online courses
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Areol: Action Research and Evaluation Online
Areol is an online course and covers the Synder evaluation process.
Basic critical thinking skills
This Research Capacity Building in Primary Health Care Basic Critical Thinking Skills course is offered by the University of Sydney and is available free of charge to all health professionals within Australia. It covers twelve topics, each of approximately one-hour duration, aims to introduce clinicians to basic skill including the ability to critically question some of the decisions made in daily practice, access research-based knowledge, recognise features of good/poor quality information and evaluate clinical decisions.
BMJ Clinical Evidence
BMJ Learning provides helpful modules aimed at improving your understanding of statistics or diagnostic tests.
Duke University Medical Center: EBM online Tutorial
Tutorial which is an introduction to Evidence Based Medicine. Five major units covered: (1) What is EBM?; (2) The Well Built Clinical Question; (3) Literature Search; (4) Evaluating the Evidence; (5) Testing Your Knowledge.
Evidence Based Medicine: University of Massachusetts Medical School
This website provides tutorial and resources on Evidence Based Medicine. Covers areas such as: (1) defining a clinical question; (2) translate a clinical question into a searchable question; (3) deciding on the best type of study; (4) performing a literature search.
Evidence Based Medicine online course: Michigan State University
Web based course that gives an overview of EBM, information mastery and critical appraisal of the medical literature.
EBM Resources: University of Sydney
Resources consist of EBM guide, EBM tutorial, evidence based practice internet guide, how to find evidence, epidemiology online super course, and CMAJ Evidence Based Medicine series.
Exploring online research methods: a virtual training environment
Exploring online research methods is an online training package in online research methods. It includes modules covering topics such as online questionnaires, online interviews, online research ethics and a technical guide. It also provides links to an extensive range of online research methods resources including key texts and journals.
Intute: virtual training suite
Intute: virtual training suite provides free Internet tutorials aimed at learning how to use the Internet effectively for research. Tutorials are specific to the topic you select and provide information on the range of resources available on the Internet, tools and strategies for searching the Internet, and information for judging which Internet sites are trustworthy.
JCU Virtual Information Skills Activity
JCU provides a range of short tutorials to help with finding relevant literature on the Internet. Modules include defining your topic, determining your information needs, evaluating information and organising information.
JCU On-line Introductory Research Modules
This set of on-line introductory research modules is available to all Primary Health Care practitioners and students. The modules are an introduction level resource for novice researchers, or a refresher course for those who have been away from research practice for a time. They were written with Australian urban and rural primary health care practitioners in mind so the content uses examples and guides and links to further reading and resources.
To gain access to these modules you must send a registration email with your name, contact and organisation to phcred@jcu.edu.au
Qualitative Research for Health Professionals (a suite of six modules)
These modules provide a step by step guide for developing your own qualitative research project. Each module provides practical exercises for the different stages such as research design, ethics, data collection, analysis and writing up.
Writing for Publication
This module provides an understanding of why you should publish your research, the journal selection and publication process. It also explains basic principals of good writing and how to prepare a journal article.
Evaluation in Primary Health Care
This module provides an understanding of why evaluation is important, and the key considerations in planning and evaluation. It explains the differences between process, impact and outcome evaluation, and how to select the appropriate measuring instruments.
Program Planning and Evaluation using the Log-Frame Method
This module is an introduction to the Logical Framework Approach (LFA). LFA is an approach to program planning and evaluation which provides a framework for assessing the progress, impacts and outcomes.
Literature Review tutorial
This resource provides you with tips and guidelines for researching and writing a literature review.
MENTOR: Monitoring and Evaluation Network of Training Online Resources
Training materials and tools for researchers. Contains an interactive mini-course on monitoring and evaluation fundamentals.
New York Academy of Medicine Evidence Based Medicine Resource Center
Provides a list of evidence based medicine courses on the web plus teaching tools.
Ovid Tutorial
This freely accessible tutorial is designed to teach people how to effectively search the OVID databases (including Medline, Cinahl, PsycInfo, etc). To access you need to belong to Griffith or another institution with a subscription to these databases.
Publish, Not Perish
The Art & Craft of Publishing Scholarly Journals
This free online course consists of five modules where you will learn to:
- Describe the role of scholarly publishing in an academic career
- List the essential steps of planning and writing a scholarly paper
- Develop a personal publication plan
- Compare and contrast the different publishing models currently in use
- Describe the types of articles you can write
- List the pros and cons of collaborative authoring
- Describe the tools and resources a scholarly writer needs to have on hand
Publishing your research
This online workshop is for students doing higher degrees by research.
PubMed Online Training
This is a self help tutorial and other resources designed to teach people how to effectively search the freely available PubMed.
Research Methods and Statistics
Online course and statistical tutorials from the School of Psychology University of New England. Covers sections on behavioural science and research, research design, collecting the data and analysing the data.
Research methods in the social and natural sciences
Online tutorial covering description, strengths and limitations of five different methods - experimental, correlational, naturalistic observation, survey, case study.
Research methods tutorials - Cornell University
Tutorials for new researchers with various resources on research methods. Covers research foundations, sampling and external validity, measurement and construct validity, research design and internal validity, data analysis and conclusion validity.
Research Methods WWW Tutorial
Provides materials on research methods covering areas such as: what are research methods, common errors made in research, some early steps in research, variables and relationships.
RMIT: Postgraduate Information Skills Tutorial
UNIT 1 Developing a search strategy: Learn how to define your research topic, identify the important aspects of your search, compile a list of keywords, develop your search strategy, and keep track of your research.
UNIT 2 Database searching: Learn how to identify relevant databases, modify the search strategy for different databases, and use proximity operators.
Statistics at Square One
This online version of Statistics at Square One ninth edition; T D V Swinscow is revised by M J Campbell of the University of Southampton. It provides updated information on medical statistics, new techniques, information on statistical programs available and incorporates questions at the end of each chapter.
Statistics and Research Methods Workshops
On-line workshops covering statistics and research methods.
SUNY Downstate Medical Center Evidence Based Medicine Tutorial
Tutorial which provides an introduction to Evidence Based Medicine
The research assistant.com
Resources for behavioural science researchers. Offers an online grant writing tutorial which gives tips on fatal flaws and common pitfalls.
UniSA Library
Strategies for searching databases
Strategies for Searching Databases is aimed at developing skills to find relevant information on the internet. The tutorial helps to plan your search by analysing your topic and defining concepts and key words and provides a worksheet designed to assist while undertaking searches.
Health Source: nursing academic edition
Provides access to nursing and allied health journals. This video shows you how to search the Health Source Database.
ScienceDirect
This video shows you how to access and search ScienceDirect.
Australian Statistics
Shows how to search the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) website.
Where do I publish?
This covers what a peer reviewed journal is, how to find and choose a journal, how to measure the quality of a journal, and what you need to do once you have chosen a journal.
University of Colorado Denison Library: Student's Guide to the Medical literature
Website provides a tutorial covering Evidence Based Medicine principles.