Research Tools for Medical Students 

self-paced tutorial, includes practice cases

online resource for essential textbook

Evidence-Based Medicine is a one-credit elective course offered to 3rd year Medical Students. Registration is required.

Resource for teaching and learning EBM; lots of materials, articles, calculators, worksheets, etc.

articles explaining how to critically appraise studies

Diagnostic Test - calculates the Sensitivity, Specificity, PPV, NPV, LR+, and LR-

Prospective Study - calculates the Relative Risk (RR), Absolute Relative Risk (ARR), and Number Needed to Treat (NNT)

Case-control Study - calculates the O

This calculator can determine diagnostic test characteristics (sensitivity, specificity, likelihood ratios) and/or determine the post-test probability of disease given the pre-test probability and test characteristics.