Essentials of Clinical and Translational Science (ECATS)

Are you ready to take a deeper dive into the world of clinical and translational science?

The Essentials of Clinical and Translational Science (ECaTS) course provides healthcare professionals with foundational knowledge of research terminology, research methods and processes; clinical epidemiology; and biomedical statistics. Upon completion, learners will understand basic terminology and methodological concepts in epidemiology from a clinical perspective. They also will learn basic statistical methods used in various clinical study designs.

This course prepares learners to critically review medical literature, including scholarly publications.

Intended audience

This course is appropriate for learners at any level of interest in clinical and translational science.

Curriculum

Course directors

Felicity T. Enders, Ph.D., and Walter A. Rocca, M.D., M.P.H.

Course outcomes

  • Critically evaluate and interpret epidemiologic and statistical evidence in clinical and translational research.
  • Demonstrate the ability to select appropriate methods, articulate their limitations and defend analytic approaches in applied research contexts.
  • Develop and communicate rigorous, evidence-based arguments using epidemiologic and statistical reasoning.

Course outline

The ECaTS online self-paced course is divided into two units:

  1. Principles of Clinical Epidemiology
    • Introduction and Foundations
    • The Population Survey: Incidence and Prevalence
    • The Population Survey: Time, Place and Person
    • Bias and Causal Inference
    • Confounding, Mediation & Interaction: Beyond X & Y
    • The Case-Control Study
    • The Cohort Study
    • The Clinical Trial
  2. Statistics in Clinical and Translational Science
    • Summary Statistics and Graphing
    • Confidence Intervals
    • Confidence Intervals for Binary
    • Introduction to a Hypothesis
    • Hypothesis Testing for Continuous Outcomes
    • Hypothesis Testing for Categorical Outcomes
    • Graphs for Diagnostic Testing and Survival Data

Registration

Visit the ECaTS Executive Education page to register for this course.

Mayo Clinic employees can visit our intranet site to find out about internal pricing. Users must be logged in to the Mayo Clinic network to access this intranet site.

Contact

Direct questions to the CCaTS Workforce Development team.