• Finding and Appraising the Evidence by Amanda Burls and Anne Brice — online training resources from HealthKnowledge
• BestBETs Critical Appraisals — test yourself by reading the same articles, and checking whether your appraisal matches theirs.

The Medical Library offers a variety of types of critical appraisal training. All sessions involve attendees reading an article in advance, and then discussing the article in a group.

Critical appraisal for NHS staff — This course will help you understand how to critically evaluate medical research articles, with a particular emphasis on evaluating the reliability, trustworthiness, and applicability of an article in informing evidence-based practice and decision-making in a healthcare context.

Risk of bias assessment: systematic reviews — This course will help you understand how to undertake a risk of bias assessment of a systematic review, assessing its reliability, trustworthiness, and applicability. The session uses the ROBIS tool to assess a preselected published systematic review.

• BMJ Learning – Evidence Based Medicine: a users’ guide — After completing this module you should be able to:
  • Outline the reasons for evidence based practice
  • Begin to answer your own clinical questions
  • Understand the concept of “number needed to treat.”
• BMJ Learning – Understanding Statisitics —This learning module should help you understand:
  • That the same trial results can be presented in different ways
  • The strengths and weaknesses of using ratios and differences to describe results
  • How to calculate a number needed to treat (NNT) from published papers.
• BMJ Learning – Understanding statistics: tips for hospital doctors —This learning module should help you understand:
  • That the same trial results can be presented in different ways
  • The strengths and weaknesses of using ratios and differences to describe results
  • How to calculate a number needed to treat (NNT) from published papers.
• BMJ Learning – Understanding statistics 2: is there a significant difference? —This module should help you to:
  • Appreciate when the results of a trial are statistically significant
  • Understand the difference between P values and confidence intervals
  • Determine whether an important difference has been excluded between the treatment and control arms of a trial.

Please note: the BMJ Learning modules require a BMJ Learning subscription – you cannot access them via Raven or NHS Athens.