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Positive predictive value—the role of specificity

In this short video, you’ll learn how sensitivity and specificity influence the positive predictive value and why specificity has a much greater impact.
6th Nov 2016 • 2m read

Positive predictive value—the role of prevalence

In today’s lesson, I’ll explain what positive and negative predictive values are, why they are useful, and how the positive predictive value is influenced by disease prevalence.
2nd Nov 2016 • 4m read

The Medmastery Show - Episode #13: Dan Siegel | Become a great clinician by following his valuable advice

Today's guest is Dr Dan Siegel. Today's interview will give you inspiration and energy, plus many nuggets of wisdom that you can apply and use in your own life.
10th Oct 2016 • 2m read

Sensitivity and specificity taken to the next level

In this video, we’ll be taking your expertise of sensitivity and specificity one step further.
15th Sep 2016 • 2m read

Test sensitivity and specificity made easy

Today we are going to cover test sensitivity and specificity in a non-boring way. That's a promise!
7th Sep 2016 • 3m read

The Medmastery Show - Episode #12: Judson Brewer | Mindfulness in medicine

In this interview, Judson explains how we can use mindfulness for ourselves and our patients to help us become happier and more fulfilled in our jobs and daily lives.
25th Aug 2016 • 2m read

The role of adjustment in age confounding

Want to know how age adjustment works? Watch this short video and become a masterful interpreter of medical literature!
16th Aug 2016 • 2m read

The importance of age confounding in medical literature

Age is usually the most important confounder in clinical studies. This short video will explain what age confounding is and how to spot it if it’s present.
4th Aug 2016 • 3m read

Mortality rates—the nuts and bolts

Understanding mortality rates is crucial if you want to understand and interpret medical literature. In this 6-minute video, you’ll learn the nuts and bolts of mortality rates.
30th Jul 2016 • 5m read

Incidence and prevalence—what you really need to know

If you want to understand medical literature, you absolutely need to understand the difference between incidence and prevalence and what they have to do with one another.
24th Jul 2016 • 4m read