{"id":78,"date":"2018-03-07T06:22:25","date_gmt":"2018-03-07T06:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/publichealth\/?p=78"},"modified":"2018-03-07T07:00:27","modified_gmt":"2018-03-07T07:00:27","slug":"module-focus-clinical-trials-22-05-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/publichealth\/2018\/03\/07\/module-focus-clinical-trials-22-05-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Module Focus: Clinical Trials (22.05.15)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-79\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/publichealth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2018\/03\/Clinical-Trials-Icon-.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"299\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/publichealth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2018\/03\/Clinical-Trials-Icon-.jpeg 299w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/publichealth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2018\/03\/Clinical-Trials-Icon--250x140.jpeg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 299px) 85vw, 299px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This year was no exception to previous years, the Clinical Trials module was well received by students. The module provided students with a theoretical and practical understanding of trial methodology.<\/p>\n<p>There were a number of positive comments about the module. Students said:<br \/>\n<em>\u201cOverall this week has been excellent.\u00a0 All the lecturers have taught very appropriately at an appropriate pace\u201d; \u201c I really enjoyed Weds pm session \u2026\u2026.increased my level of understanding of QALY (Quality Adjusted Life Years) calculations\u201d; \u201cLectures covered a variety of themes\u2026 topics inspired me to learn. Enjoyed the 2 weeks!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We are very keen to improve our sessions every year based on student feedback. Next year we will consider organising a short interactive session with the Birmingham Clinical Trials Unit staff to give a flavour of what they do.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Written by Melanie Calvert, Professor of Outcomes Methodology and Jane Daniela, Deputy Director of the Birmingham Clinical Trials Unit &#8211; Module Leads.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year was no exception to previous years, the Clinical Trials module was well received by students. The module provided students with a theoretical and practical understanding of trial methodology. There were a number of positive comments about the module. Students said: \u201cOverall this week has been excellent.\u00a0 All the lecturers have taught very appropriately &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/publichealth\/2018\/03\/07\/module-focus-clinical-trials-22-05-15\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Module Focus: Clinical Trials (22.05.15)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":223,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10,9,5,11,8],"class_list":["post-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-blog","tag-masters","tag-mph","tag-post","tag-public-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/publichealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/publichealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/publichealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/publichealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/223"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/publichealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/publichealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/publichealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions\/80"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/publichealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/publichealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/publichealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}