Epistudia – Mastering Health Reporting
Re-Check has joined forces with Epistudia for the online course Mastering Health Reporting: Evidence-Based Journalism (LINK). 240 minutes – at your own pace – with Nadia Elia, Catherine Riva and Serena Tinari.
Epistudia is an accredited online learning and evidence generation platform. It’s an organization that resonates with Re-Check, as it collaborates with clinicians and scientists “to apply scientific principles, cutting-edge knowledge, and validated methods, shaping data-driven healthcare, public health, and policy decision-making”.
Also, Re-Check definitely shares some key values with Epistudia, because that’s how it describes its mission: “We have to get it right! Most healthcare interventions (up to 94%) we apply are not supported by high quality evidence, and harms are underreported (Howick et al. 2022). Supporting personal bias can shape the game in myriad ways, influencing the direction and quality of research; the result is a distorted truth.”
5 skills you’ll learn joining this Re-Check-Epistudia course:
- Apply Evidence-based medicine and investigative journalism principles to report in the field of health and medicine.
- Determine the relevance of a healthcare news by applying simple rules of thumb: differentiate between marketing, sensationalism, and misinterpretation, and focus on evidence-based reporting.
- Dig deeper on the market approval of a pharmaceutical intervention.
- A Study is Not Just a Study: understand the different study designs, and what they can and can’t prove.
- Why conflicts of interests are important and how to unveil them.
