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Critical Appraisal Institute for Librarians: Curriculum 2023

Peer Presentations

Plenary 1 : Wednesday 1/18 1:00-2:30 PM Eastern Time

Module 1: Critical Appraisal and Clinical Study Designs: Basics and Biases

This is the content that you will review prior to your Module 1 small group meeting the Week of January 23.

NOTE: We found an error on the second to last page of the Module 1 course materials. The end of the final sentence in the section titled What is the difference between efficacy and effectiveness? should read, "...efficacy studies have more internal validity, effectiveness studies are more generalizable (or have greater external validity).” Thank you to those participants who identified the mistake.

Module 2: Foundational Stats: Descriptive & Inferential Statistics, Hypothesis Testing

This is the content that you will review prior to your Module 2 small group meeting the Week of January 30.

Module 3: Common Measures of Association in Biomedical Studies: Harm & Therapy Studies

This is the content that you will review prior to your Module 3 small group meeting the Week of February 6.

Module 4: Appraising Diagnostic Tool and Screening Studies

This is the content that you will review prior to your Module 4 small group meeting the Week of February 20.

Module 5: Prognosis Studies and Systematic Reviews

This is the content that you will review prior to your Module 5 small group meeting the Week of February 27.

NOTE: The video on "Interpreting Hazard Ratios" mentions a web resource http://cancerguide.org which no longer exists. We have replaced their tutorial in the Module Readings.

Plenary 2: Wednesday 3/8 2:00-3:30 PM Eastern Time

Module 6 : Journal Clubs

The last small group session of CAIFL is a Journal Club. This session is the culmination of everything we have done to this point. Journal club will be held during the final scheduled small group session, during the week of March 13, 2023.