Programme and abstracts
The conference programme.
Annual Meeting for Teachers of Statistics in Medicine and Allied Health Sciences 2018: Wednesday 20 June - Friday 22 June, Edinburgh.
Abstracts
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Wednesday 20 June
13.00 Conference registration and lunch
14.00 Conference welcome (Conference organizer: Dr Margaret MacDougall)
14.15 Workshop
Developing a research methods, data analysis and statistics course (RMDAS): pedagogical, technical and student considerations (Drs Louise Connelly and Jessica Martin)
15.15 Coffee break
15.45 Talk
Outreach opportunities: How can us professionals get involved? (Mr Jonathan Love, University of Strathclyde)
16.15 Close of day
Thursday 21 June
10.00 Workshop
Adapting the Cornell method for teaching statistics (Dr Vikki O’Neill, Queen’s University Belfast)
11.00 Talk
Maximising use of NHS data: Development of bespoke training to increase statistical capacity (Professor Sarah Lewis, University of Nottingham)
11.30 Coffee break
12.00 Workshop
Career development for statisticians working in medical schools: Approaches to overcoming the obstacles (Dr Gill Price, University of East Anglia and Prof Steff Lewis, University of Edinburgh)
13.00 Interview with student Contributing to teaching innovations in medicine and allied health sciences: A student perspective (Ms Sandra Sam, Nuffield Research Placement student and Dr Margaret MacDougall, University of Edinburgh)
13.15 Lunch
14.00 Workshop
Progression towards open access environments in the teaching of statistics to non-specialists within medicine and allied health sciences (Dr Margaret MacDougall, University of Edinburgh)
15.00 Coffee
15.45 Historical Tour: Archaeological Findings in the Old College Quadrangle (Ms Jean Grier, author of ‘Digging up Our Past: The Archaeological Excavations in Old College Quad at the University of Edinburgh’)
16.45 Free time
18.00 Conference dinner at Ciao Roma, with after-dinner speaker Martin Bland (Emeritus Professor of Health Statistics, University of York)
Friday 22 June
09.30 Talk
Learning statistics: The wonders and limitations of statistical software (Dr Renata Medeiros-Mirra, Cardiff University)
10.30 Open forum
Personal experiences of using statistical software for teaching students of medicine and allied health sciences (Chair: Mr Dean Langan, University College London)
11.10 Coffee
11.30 Talk
Q-Step for medical statistics? (Professor John MacInnes, University of Edinburgh)
12.00 Closing comments and plans for next year’s conference
12.30 Lunch and departure