ORL BIO 205CAdvanced Seminar: Comparative Effectiveness and Evidence-Based Research
Oral Biology · 2 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
Hands-on experience in process of systematic review, as shared mechanism in comparative effectiveness and evidence-based research. Specialized topics include level and quality of evidence assessments, acceptable sampling analysis, meta-analysis and meta-regression, and Bayesian-derived decision making following utility versus logic model. Students work on examples of their choice and interest in oral biology, medicine, and orthodontics.
Letter grading.
When it runs
Not on the schedule for any of Fall 2025 through Spring 2027. UCLA publishes only that window, so this does not mean the course is gone — check the official listing.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Requisites: courses 205A, 205B (may be taken concurrently).
BruinTree reads · Prerequisite
confidence 1.00 · from text- ORL BIO 205A
- ORL BIO 205Bmay be taken concurrently
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
ORL BIO 205C
- ORL BIO 205AMethodology in Research Design and Data Analysis
- ORL BIO 205BMethodology in Evidence-Based Dentistry
2 direct requisites. The whole upstream is here — 2 courses over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
No course in the catalog lists this as a requisite.