WORKSHOP: EVALUATING A DIAGNOSTIC TEST IN THE HEALTH RELATED SCIENCES WITH SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS USING STATA

A continuous medical education programmme by Medical Education and research development Unit (MERDU), FACULTY OF MEDICINE

“Evaluating a diagnostic test in the health related sciences with software applications using STATA”

Date: 29th - 30th June 2010

Venue: Meeting Room of Medical Education and Research Development Unit (above Medical Library), Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya.

Medical Education & Research Development Unit (MERDU) is pleased to inform you that we are organising “Evaluating A Diagnostic Test In The Health Related Sciences With Software Applications Using STATA” Workshop, especially for any clinician pharmacist, nurse or health related worker involved in diagnostic research of Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya .

Diagnosis is an essential part of clinical practice and very often we want to improve our methods of doing so. New tests are being developed at a fast rate and the technology of existing tests is continuously being improved. A new instrument may have come out in the market, a new kind of test is now made available, how good are we at classifying a patient correctly according to a blood test result, how good is the test at picking those correctly diagnosed, how precise or reproducible is the test, how to choose the best `cut-off’ level, how good is the inter-rater agreement? These are the issues the course hopes to deal with. It will be informal with the topics flitting between lectures and practicals.

Participants are limited to 20 people, kindly please register in MERDU office and remit your payment in order to ensure a place. Payment can be made by cheque or money order. All cheques or money orders should be made payable to:- University Malaya Medical Centre latest by 20th June 2010.

Registration fees:RM150

NB. All candidates are to use their own laptops during the workshop. The candidate must load the programme (STATA Version 11 programme) onto his LAPTOP at MERDU a week before the course and have an opportunity to use it for one month. STATA is a user friendly software and most suitable for the Health Related Sciences.

Disclaimer: There must be a minimum of 15 participants for the course to be run. In the event of insufficient participants the course will be cancelled and the cheques will be returned to the participants.

By : Universiti Of Malaya