This half-day course provides hands-on instruction in the development of a simple database and online survey, along with an introduction to some other areas of REDCap's functionality.

Course outcomes

After this course participants should be able to:

• Feel comfortable navigating around the REDCap application
• Create and configure a new project
• Create and edit data collection forms
• Perform data entry
• Understand the lifecycle of a REDCap project
• Create and administer an online survey
• Be aware of some of REDCap's additional features and limitations
• Know where to seek more information
  
  

Course details

Online courses

• Dates: 31 March 2026 and 15 September 2026
• Venue: Online via Zoom
• Duration: One half-day session from 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM

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This course is aimed at people with working experience of REDCap including project design and configuration.

It is assumed that participants are familiar with, and comfortable navigating, REDCap's web interface to perform Project Setup and data entry tasks.

Course outcomes

After completing this course participants should be able to:

1. Make use of some of REDCap's more advanced features, including:

• Using the data dictionary for speedy form development
• Longitudinal and repeating instrument configuration
• Automated survey invitations
• Data quality rules
• Data Import
• Managing changes to a Production project

2. Build more complex data entry forms utilising:

• Different design strategies for different data capture scenarios
• Branching logic with repeating fields
• Action tags and smart variables
• Functions in calculated field expressions
• Cross-field validation checks
• Basic HTML and CSS for styling text

3. Be aware of and able to investigate some of REDCap's other more advanced features.

Course details

• Dates: 12 May 2026 and 27 October 2026
• Venue: Online via Zoom
• Duration: One half-day session from 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM

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This course covers the most used Stata commands. At the completion of the course, students should be able to:

• Create and run do-files containing Stata commands
• Import data from Excel and other data sources into Stata 
• Understand the basics of data cleaning
• Inspect and list the data in a Stata dataset
• Change data and create new variables
• Merge and append Stata data files, save data
• Reshape data sets from "long" to "wide" form and vice versa
• Generate simple descriptive statistics for data
• Create simple graphs and save them in a useable format
• Access Stata Help
  
  

Prerequisites

This course is designed for beginning researchers, but it assumes familiarity with computer file management, including how to recognise different file types by their extensions and how to move files between directories.

The course is Windows-based, but participants using other operating systems, such as MacOS, should be able to follow the material presented.

Course format

• The course runs on two scheduled days.
• A week prior to the course all students will be provided with a temporary licence to allow them to download and run Stata on their home computers.
• The day before the course, the course notes and required files (Stata files and Excel files) will be made available for students to download.
• Our course instructors have recorded a series of short videos between 5-10 minutes which support students in systematically working through the course notes. These are available on Teams for the duration of the course.
• The course begins with a brief introduction by one of our course instructors via Teams. Students can then work through the course notes and view the instructional videos at their own pace.
• Instructors will be available to answer questions during the course.
  
  

Course details

• Dates: 16-17 June 2026 and 17-18 November 2026
• Venue: Online via Teams (please provide your work or student email when registering)
• Duration: Two full days from 9:00 AM to 4:30 PM

A self-study option is available for MCRI staff only. Please email us at  show email address for details.

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In this second Stata course, participants will learn how to carry out basic data analysis.

The emphasis is on techniques for organising work efficiently and reproducibly in Stata.

At the completion of the course, students should be able to:

• Create descriptive statistics and confidence intervals
• Run hypothesis tests (chi-square, t-tests, and nonparametric tests)
• Calculate odds ratios and relative risks
• Perform common univariate and bivariate analyses, including regression
• Save analysis results directly into Excel or Word
• Organise your work efficiently so all analyses are reproducible
  
  

Prerequisites

The focus of the course is on learning to apply Stata in statistical analysis. As this is not a statistics course, participants are expected to have a basic knowledge of statistics, at least at the level of our Introduction to Biostatistics course.

Stata software

Murdoch Children's Research Institute (MCRI) has a site license for the use of the StataNow SE software package. This can be freely installed on both MCRI and personal computers for MCRI staff and affiliates, including students. It is only to be used for MCRI-related work.

Course details

• Dates: 16-17 June 2026 and 17-18 November 2026
• Venue: Online via Teams (please provide your work or student email when registering)
• Duration: Two full days from 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM

A self-study option is available for MCRI staff only. Please email us at  show email address for details.

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The fee for this course is $190.

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Trybooking: REDCap I: Introduction to REDCap

The fee for this course is $190.

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Trybooking: REDCap II: Beyond the Basics

Fees for this course:

• $360 for internal applicants – Melbourne Children’s campus staff (Murdoch Children's Research Institute, The Royal Children's Hospital and the University of Melbourne, Department of Paediatrics).
  
  
• $800 for external full-time students and Melbourne Academic Centre for Health (MACH-affiliated) institutions (please enter institution name).
  
  
• $1100 for external applicants with no appointment on Melbourne Children’s campus.

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Trybooking: Stata 1: Introduction to Stata: Managing Your Data

Fees for this course:

• $360 for internal applicants – Melbourne Children’s campus staff only (Murdoch Children's Research Institute, The Royal Children's Hospital and the University of Melbourne, Department of Paediatrics).
  
  
• $800 for external full-time students and Melbourne Academic Centre for Health (MACH-affiliated) institutions (please enter institution name).
  
  
• $1100 for external applicants with no appointment on Melbourne Children’s campus.

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Trybooking: Stata 2: Reproducible Data Analysis in Stata