Evidence-Based Medicine as a Tool for Undergraduate Probability and Statistics Education.

ABSTRACT: Most students have difficulty reasoning about chance events, and misconceptions regarding probability can persist or even strengthen following traditional instruction. Many biostatistics classes sidestep this problem by prioritizing exploratory data analysis over probability. However, probability itself, in addition to statistics, is essential both to the biology curriculum and to informed decision making in daily life. One area in which probability is particularly important is medicine. Given the preponderance of pre health students, in addition to more general interest in medicine, we capitalized on students' intrinsic motivation in this area to teach both probability and statistics. We use the randomized controlled trial as the centerpiece of the course, because it exemplifies the most

SUBMITTER: Masel J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4710403 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature