Randomized Controlled Trials Courses and Certifications

Thinking Critically: Interpreting Randomized Clinical Trials

5 ratings

Enhance your research skills with this course on critically evaluating clinical studies. Learn key research methodology principles, including randomization and blinding, to improve clinical practice,

• edX
• 1 week, 2-3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Designing and Running Randomized Evaluations

Design randomized evaluations of social programs: randomization and sample size, measurement, data collection and management, questionnaire design, and research transparency and reproducibility.

• MITx Online
• 14 weeks, 12-14 hours/week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab Executive Training: Evaluating Social Programs 2009

Five-day J-PAL executive training on designing randomized evaluations of social programs, from randomization methods and power calculations to managing threats and analyzing data.

• MIT OpenCourseWare
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab Executive Training: Evaluating Social Programs 2009

Learn to evaluate social programs using randomized evaluations, design randomization, measure outcomes, calculate sample size and power, and analyze data while addressing validity threats.

• MIT OpenCourseWare
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Thinking Critically: Interpreting Randomized Clinical Trials

Develop critical appraisal skills for interpreting randomized clinical trials and published studies evaluating treatment benefits, harms, and prognosis.

• Independent
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Online Learning Campus - World Bank Group

Evaluating Impact in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

57 ratings at edX

How can we know if the policies and interventions implemented in low- and middle-income countries are making a difference, if they are really improving outcomes? This course provides the experimental

• edX
• 24 weeks, 3-5 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Design and Interpretation of Clinical Trials

5 ratings

Learn to design and interpret randomized clinical trials: parallel, crossover and factorial designs, randomization, masking, intention-to-treat analysis, research ethics, and CONSORT reporting guidelines.

• Coursera
• 6 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Strong Medicine

How to Appraise a Clinical Trial

1 rating

Learn to critically appraise clinical trials by examining design choices such as randomization, blinding, sample size, and analysis methods.

• YouTube
• 26 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

AI Engineer

METR's Benchmarks vs Economics - The AI Capability Measurement Gap

Explore why AI models excel on benchmarks but fail to boost real-world developer productivity, examining METR's time horizon methodology and the gap between lab performance and field results.

• YouTube
• 21 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Study Designs in Epidemiology

623 ratings at Coursera

Compare epidemiological study designs — ecological, cross-sectional, case-control, cohort, nested case-control and case-cohort, and randomised controlled trials — and pick the best design for a research question.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

AI For Medical Treatment

547 ratings at Coursera

In this course, you will build a treatment effect predictor, apply model interpretation techniques and use natural language processing to extract information from radiology reports.

• Coursera
• 3 weeks, 7 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Data Analysis for Social Scientists - Spring 2023

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Master statistical methods and econometrics to analyze social, economic, and policy data using probability, regression, experiments, and R programming.

• YouTube
• 1 day 3 hours 55 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

(Royal) Caroline Institute

Pragmatic Randomized Controlled Trials in Health Care

Pragmatic randomized controlled trials reliably work out which of several healthcare interventions works best under real-world conditions.

• edX
• 4 weeks
• No Longer Offered
• Free Online Course

Shaw Talebi

Causal Effects - Introduction to the Potential Outcomes Framework

Explore the Potential Outcomes Framework and three types of causal effects in this introductory video on causal inference, laying the groundwork for future discussions on observational data analysis.

• YouTube
• 11 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Houston Methodist DeBakey CV Education

Caught in the Cardiovascular Crosscurrents - In Pursuit of Scientific Truth

Explore the effectiveness of surgical bypass vs. endovascular therapy for chronic limb-threatening ischemia. Analyze randomized controlled trials and address challenges in complex peripheral arterial disease care.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 4 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video