Overview

This module is designed to help medical affairs professionals effectively evaluate medical and scientific literature so they can identify and provide relevant and reliable information to healthcare professionals. It covers the structure and content of published research results that guide clinical practices and influence scientific research.

This module takes an average of 2.75 hours to complete.

Featured topics

- Abstract and introduction
- Study participants
- Study design and controls
- Measuring study results
- Data management problems
- Describing the data
- Presenting the results
- Interpreting the results
- Establishing causality
- Determining importance and generalizability of results

Who should attend?

This course is designed for professionals involved in:

Medical affairs
Medical communications
Medical information
Medical writing
Field-based medical affairs support (i.e., medical science liaison)
Medical call center environment
Regulatory affairs
Clinical research
Professional education, training, and development
Document management/eSubmissions

Learning objectives

At the conclusion of this course, participants should be able to:
- Determine whether participants in a study are appropriately selected, and are representative of the patients who receive the interventions being investigated
- Analyze the efficacy, safety, and effectiveness outcomes of a study
- Recognize how tables and graphs can be used effectively, but may also misrepresent data
- Evaluate the internal validity of a study
- Define causal and non-causal relationships, and criteria for causality
- Categorize how data are described in a study

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Literature Evaluation

Overview

Featured topics

Who should attend?

Learning objectives

Be informed and stay engaged.