Most journals report a point-estimate of what they're trying to measure with a p-value. This gives you an idea of whether this point-estimate is statistically significant. However, now journals are requiring the reporting of confidence intervals over p-values. CI's give you additional information: First they give you an idea of the precision of the point-estimate. … Continue reading Why Confidence Intervals are better than P-values →

On September 30, 2015, I'll be giving a workshop on How to Flip Your Classroom. The time allotted is only an hour-and-a-half, so I thought I'd offload some of the didactics here to the web. This gives us more time to use during the workshop to actually apply the concepts to your projects. First of … Continue reading RMC Workshop on Flipping the Classroom →

Part of the "There's an App For That" talk Rakesh and I have given at CORD has included software recommendations. People requested demonstrations of how to use the software. So here's the first one, 1password for iPhone (also available for iPad, Mac, PC and Android).

Anatomy of the Chest X-ray Before we dig into an approach for reading chest x-rays, it's important to know all the things that we'll looking at. There are typically two views you'll be looking at PA and lateral. The PA or posterior to anterior shoots a beam from a standing patient's back through to their … Continue reading CXR 101 →