Instructor

Harald Walach (Ph.D.)

Professor of Psychology

Professor Harald Walach is a researcher at the interface between medicine, psychology and consciousness studies. His research interest is in methodology and evaluation of complementary medicine, the impact of consciousness on health, and a scientific approach to consciousness and spirituality. He is editor of the Journal “Complementary Medicine Research”, associate editor of the journal “Mindfulness” and editor of the Springer book series “Neuroscience, Consciousness, Spirituality”.

After a career building up a research group in complementary medicine at the University Hospital in Freiburg, Germany, he held a research professorship with the University of Northampton, UK from 2005-2009 where he directed the MSc Program of Transpersonal Psychology and Consciousness Studies

Currently he is affiliated as a professor with Poznan Medical University in Poznan, Poland, where he teaches mindfulness to the international medical students, and as a visiting professor with the University Witten-Herdecke’s psychology department in Germany, where he teaches philosophical foundations of psychology to psychology undergraduates. He is founding director of the Change Health Science Institute in Berlin. Dr. Walach holds a double Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology, and History and Theory of Science.

About this course

  • Target group

    → Healthcare Professionals / Medical Students

  • Learning outcomes

    →Explore how to use clinical research evidence in an integrative healthcare setting
    →Learn about ‘evidence based medicine’ (EBM) and its strengths and limitations when applying it to integrative approaches
    →Gain skills in searching and critiquing papers, particularly randomised controlled studies and systematic review, and understanding statistics

  • Accreditation / CPD Points

    You will receive a Certificate of Completion from the National Centre for Integrative Medicine

Course curriculum

    1. Welcome from Harald

    2. Introduction Video

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    3. How to use the e-learning platform

    4. Learning objectives

    5. Before you start...

    1. Task 1: Watch PowerPoint 1 - Methodology 1: What does ‘Methodology’ mean?

    2. Task 2: Download and read paper

    3. Task 3: Think about your own pet research question or what interests you and formulate a research question

    4. Task 4: Optionally, acquire this basic textbook that can be very helpful to have as a reference

    1. Task 1: Watch PowerPoint 2 – Horses for Courses – Basic Questions and Answers

    2. Task 2: Read the texts relevant to this section on the links below, and also look at the other papers mentioned within the PowerPoint ‘Horse for Courses’

    3. Task 3: Think about a research question of interest to you and formulate it using the matrix ‘Questions and Methods’ to guide you

    1. Task 1: Watch PowerPoint 3 – ‘Evidence Based Medicine 1’

    2. Task 2: Read the texts provided

    3. Task 3: Pick a clinical question of your choice, for instance related to 'chronic pain treatment'

    4. Task 4: Find and count all the guidelines relevant to your question

    5. Task 5: Extract the recommendations and compare them

    1. Task 2: Read the texts provided

    2. Task 3: Go back to your clinical question, for instance “chronic pain treatment” and compare what the guidelines say with the evidence these guidelines provide.

    3. Task 4: Reflect on and write notes answering the below questions

    4. Survey

    5. Task 1: Watch PowerPoint 4 - Evidence Based Medicine 2

    1. Task 1: Watch PowerPoint 5 - What Every Practitioner Needs to Know about Statistics

    2. Task 2: Read the texts provided

    3. Task 3: There are three target studies provided (Nicholls et al and Ofner et al, Mora et al): Take their results sections and calculate the rough effect size.

    4. Task 4: Reflect and write about these questions

    5. Task 5: Answer the questions:

About this course

  • £87.50
  • 6-10h course length
  • Certificate of Completion

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