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University of Sheffield Medical School Virtual Graduation Ceremony

University of Sheffield Medical School Virtual Graduation Ceremony

One of our medical students, Zahra, takes us on a 360° tour of the Open Day held in the medical school.

The University of Sheffield Medical School has over 1250 medical students registered on the MBChB medicine degree with many of the students in the later years undertaking their clinical placements…

We were delighted to welcome Professor Chris Whitty, Chief Scientific Adviser at the Department of Health, to the University on Thursday 15 February to deliver the 20th Sir Arthur Hall Memorial…

An introduction to the MSc(Res) in Translational Oncology, here at the University of Sheffield, by the course director, Dr Carolyn Staton, and students on the course. For more details about the…

This video introduces the concept of randomization of treatments to patients using playing cards. It describes simple randomisation, which is the purest form of randomization

This video looks at a different form of randomization, minimization. This method can be more efficient than stratification at ensuring balance in important predictive characteristics, but is not true…

This video looks at randomization when the patients are grouped into clusters. Since the clusters tend to be relatively few, getting balance is generally more important than with simple randomization.

This video introduces the three main concepts in Randomized Trials, the ABC: Allocation at random, Blindness and Control

This video looks two methods of trying to get a better balance between two groups namely blocked randomization and stratified randomization. Blocked randomisation tries to ensure that approximately…