Evidence-Based Medicine in Clinical Pharmacy Practice

Week 1 - Learn the most common statistical tests used in medical literature. Week 2 - Be able to define, calculate, interpret, and describe the appropriate use of number needed to treat (NNT) and number needed to harm (NNH) in clinical trials. Week 3 - List the potential outcomes for a noninferiority compared to a superiority study. Week 4 - Describe the purpose of clinical practice guidelines with regards to how it should be used in clinical practice. Week 5 - Explore the process of PICO structure in a clinical trial. Week 6 - Learn the principles of Evidence-Based Medicine(EBM) in clinical settings. Most FutureLearn courses run multiple times. Every run of a course has a set start date but you can join it and work through it after it starts. Find out more This course is for professionals or students looking to build their clinical pharmacokinetic knowledge. You might be an undergraduate pharmacy student, a postgraduate pharmacy student or a pharmacist in clinical practice.