Introduction to Medical Literature

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This course prepares students to search, interpret, and evaluate the medical literature to include the use of common databases to access medical literature, the use of medical references, the limits of medical research, sampling methods, formulation of research question(s), and interpretation of basic bio-statistical methods. Prerequisites: Successful completion of the spring semester of the didactic year of the graduate program in Physician Assistant Studies. The pre-requisites of MS 502B, 503B, 504B, 507, 508A, 509 and 510 are all required.