Biostatistics and Epidemiology: online MasterClass in Biostatistics and Epidemiology to practice Evidence-Based Veterinary Medicine, 3rd, 4th, 7th, and 8th April 2025, online
The overall objective of the MasterClass in Biostatistics and Epidemiology to practice Evidence-Based Veterinary Medicine is to teach the participants the basics in Biostatistics and (clinical) Epidemiology in order to critically appraise the scientific literature in veterinary clinical research. It comprises two days of lectures and two days of practicals based on results presented in papers. The MasterClass will focus on comparative studies in order to make causal inference. At the end of the MasterClass, participants will be able to analyse the consistency between the statistical methods used to obtain the results of published studies and the clinical message(s) based on these results. There will be no data manipulation with a statistical software.
Dates: 3rd, 4th, 7th, and 8th of April, 2025.
100% Online and in English
Learning outcomes:
- To understand the results obtained from usual statistical tests;
- To critically read statistics presented in tables;
- To avoid miss-interpretation of the p-values;
- To appreciate the a priori statistical power of the study;
- To interpret the results from univariate survival analyses (Kaplan-Meier curves);
- To interpret the results from univariate and multivariate regression models;
- To identify the presence of differential or non-differential misclassification bias and to discuss the impact of such bias;
- To identify the presence of confounding bias and to discuss the impact of such bias;
- To appreciate the level of confidence when reading the clinical message of the paper.
Further Details available on the website:
https://formation-continue.vet-alfort.fr/formation/29/practice-of-evidence-based-veterinary-medecine
Registration:
same website as above, click on “registration” after having translated the webpage in English with you web browser
Neurology: Basic Neurosurgery, 17th - 21st June 2024, Berne (Switzerland)
Learning outcomes:
- Identify the indications for hemi-/minihemilaminectomy +/- fenestration
- Ventral slot
- Dorsal laminectomy (LS)
- CSF puncture
- Muscle and nerve biopsies
- List complications of the above mentioned procedures and recount how to avoid them
- Describe the procedures for the above described surgical approaches
- Operate the surgical approaches of the above mentioned surgical procedures
- Critically reflect the best approach to the clinical condition of the patient – surgical vs. non-surgical and advise the best surgical procedure for the individual patient
- Design a treatment plan for the individual patient beyond surgery
Further Details available on the ESAVS website: https://www.esavs.eu/events/neurosurgery24/
Registration: https://esavs.eventsair.com/registration-adv/request/Site/Register