Patients and Populations: Medical Decision-Making

In this module, students will: * Construct well-defined clinical questions from case scenarios, designed to improve general knowledge about a topic, and to help make decisions regarding the use of diagnostic tests. * Understand the differences between foreground and background questions and the implications for the types of information resources best suited to answer these questions. * Become familiar with the U-M information environment, and learn to effectively search several core biomedical resources to answer specific clinical questions. * Develop an understanding of the basic foundations of biostatistics, research design and epidemiology to begin to apply scientific data to the understanding of clinical conditions. * Effectively and logically apply probabilistic reasoning to diagnostic questions that arise in patient case scenarios