Course number: 699.501, 699.502 (SE 2 hours)

In this seminar, students will simulate a clinical trial.

The following topics will be covered:

• Presentation of the clinical trial from a medical point of view by the course instructor and providing information needed to plan the clinical trial.
• Preparation of a study plan (including application form for institutional review board and statistical analysis plan) by the students.
• Presentation of the study plan by the students.
• Providing real data of an already published clinical trial. Students are analyzing this data based on their own presented study plan and are writing a study report.
• Presentation of the final study results

At the start a short intro/recap into biostatistics in clinical research (descriptive statistics, statistical testing, sample size estimation) will be provided by the instructor.

Changes to this concept are possible.