KMU ORGANIZED CERTIFICATE COURSE IN APPLIED BIOSTATISTICS

KMU ORGANIZED CERTIFICATE COURSE IN APPLIED BIOSTATISTICS

 

Khyber Medical University (KMU), Peshawar organized a certificate course in applied biostatistics (CAB) for all health care professionals including doctors, vet doctors, dentists, pharmacists where as graduates of physiotherapists, nurses and paramedics, human psychology, human nutrition, biotechnology, microbiology, biochemistry, molecular biology and genetics were also eligible for admission in the said course.

It is worth mentioning that applied biostatistics is extremely important skill that is required by all health professionals, researchers and scientists working in health care research. In addition, it is an essential skill required by practitioners and researchers working in biological sciences, veterinary sciences and life sciences, Human psychology, human nutrition, biotechnology, microbiology, biochemistry, molecular biology and genetics researchers can also benefit from this essential skill. The essential skill is required for critical review of research articles and is thus a must skill for researchers, scientists and journal editors.

All health care professional must acquire the skill of applied biostatistics for a successful career in academia, better data interpretation and data handling with successful analyses, CAB aims at introducing the participants to the essential skill of biostatistics with hands-on trainings. The CAB course was of twelve credit hours, which was divided into contact sessions and assignments. Each contact session was of two credit hours (each credit hour is sixteen hours of contact hours) and remaining credit hours were divided into assignments.