Course At A Glance

Course: Analytics for healthcare professionals
Total Duration: 9 Hours 12 Mins
Medium of instruction: English
Fee is Rs 3800 ( for Indian Drs)
Fee =US $ 55 ( for International Drs)

About the Course

We live in a world of informatics, analytics and evidence based practices. Health Care industry is no exception to this. Volumes of information is generated in the health sector at every level and kind of operations. Electronic health records are increasingly being adopted these days. The information thus generated can be used for close scrutiny and better understanding. This course on Analytics for Health Care professionals explains in details the study designs and statistics required for this data interpretation.

Course Syllabus

1.Data Collection
a)Data Analytics
b)Measurement and Scaling
c)Attitude Measurement
d)Descriptive Questionnaire – Data Collection Methods

2. Descriptive Statistics
a)Graphical Representations of Data
b)Measures of Central Tendency – New
c)Measures of Variation
d)Correlation

3. Probability
a)Probability – Basic Concepts
b)Bayes Rule and Its Applications
c)Probability Distribution
d)Continuous Distributions

4. Statistical Inference
a)Sampling and Estimation
b)Hypothesis Testing
c)Chi-Square Test

5. Experimental Designs and ANOVA
a)Analysis of Variance
b)Experimental Designs
c)Completely Randomized Design and Randomized Block Design
d)Factorial Designs

6. Forecasting
a)Temporal and Spatial Data
b)Regression
c)Advanced Regression Models (Logistic and Multiple Regression)
d)Time series

Course Delivery Format

Taking leaf from Winston Churchill’s philosophy of “always ready to learn although … not always like being taught”, IMA eVarsity is transforming medical education by garnering learning empowered by the interactive platform of digital technology. IMA eVarsity model of blended education integrates best practices of ‘chalk and board’ with emerging technologies, purporting to make mockery of fragmented medical care, that is the bane of the rising costs of health care today!

The IMAevarsity offers best of the models of blended education through online lectures, with the convenience of self-study at one’s own pace, time and place, complemented by online faculty interactions and clinical exposure through hospital rotations.

A rich learning environment is provided through a Learning Platform with access to:

Online lectures delivered by experts in respective fields. The students can view the lecture any number of times using tools to conveniently play/pause, forward/rewind, skip/review, bookmark
Included in these lectures are hundreds of text slides, illustrations and appropriate 2D and 3D animations, audios and videos to make concepts easy to understand
Facility for the student to bookmark specific segments of a running lecture and ability to add your own notes for later review.