'The Research Workplan' is designed as a modular series of lectures that altogether create a roadmap to conducting scientific research, with content tailored toward EM Residents in the UAE, but generalizable to all national and international physicians interested in navigating research from concept to reality.

Module 5 of 8

Hosted by ECREM Moderators Dr Sania Zia and Dr Tasnim Ahmed, this webinarstyle module highlights the following course topics:

(00:02:40) 1. Data Analysis Part 1: Dr Carlos Torres – Emergency Medicine Consultant at the Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, Deputy Ambassador (Brazil) for ACEP with a Masters in Medical Sciences, Masters of Public Health, and a PhD in Biophysics – simplifies definitions of correlation, causation and association and the importance of p value, with an elaboration on what effect size, central tendency and distribution mean for data and how it pertains to analysis in a study

(00:48:55) 2. Data Analysis Part 2: Dr Sameer Sharif Assistant Professor at the Department of Medicine, Division of Critical Care & EM at McMaster University, with a Master’s in Health Research Methods and a Fellowship in Critical Care – highlights the null hypothesis and its use within data analysis, before diving into the various means of measuring outcome differences for continuous and dichotomous variables as well as a brief on prediction models in clinical research

(01:21:19) 3. Question & Answers from the Audience

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