Videos
The Peer Models Network produces model companion videos to help viewers understand the models on its platform. We also post videos on a range of topics relevant to scientific modelling and healthcare decision-making. Videos featured on this page have been developed by the PMN team and/or other network members and collaborators. Use the filters below to select the type of video you’re interested in, or visit the Peer Models Network YouTube channel.
Start Here
A two-minute orientation to what the Peer Models Network is and why it exists.
Trailer: the Peer Models Network
Moral Models: Crucial Decisions in the Age of Computer Simulation
Model Companion Videos
Short introductions to individual models hosted on the PMN platform — what each one does, what it takes in, and what it tells you.
The Acute COPD Exacerbation Prediction Tool (ACCEPT) Model in 90 Seconds
The Evaluation Platform in COPD (EPIC) Model in 2 Minutes
The LEAP Model: Lifetime Exposures and Asthma Outcomes Projection
Pharmacogenomic Testing for Major Depression: A Simulation Model
Simulation Model of Treatments for Major Depression: Pharmacogenomic Testing and Beyond
Epitope Compatibility in Deceased Donor Kidney Transplantation: A Simulation Model
Integrating Precision Medicine Into COPD Care: the IMPACT Clinical Trial
Introduction to PRISM: the Programmable Interface for Statistical/Simulation Models
Introduction to PRISM: for Modellers and Decision-makers
The EPIC Series
A six-part walkthrough of the Evaluation Platform in COPD, from what kind of model it is to where it is headed.
EPIC 1: The Introduction
EPIC 2: The Model Type
EPIC 3: The Modules
EPIC 4: The Variables, Parameters, & Events
EPIC 5: The Information Sources
EPIC 6: The Future
Science & Social Values: Values in Modelling
A seven-part series on where social value judgments enter the modelling process. The full series is also available as a single video for teaching and presentation.
1. Prelude: Public Decisions in Healthcare
2. Scientific Modelling & Social Values: An Introduction
3. Scientific Modelling & Social Values: What to Model?
4. Scientific Modelling & Social Values: How to Model?
5. Scientific Modelling & Social Values: What is True or Likely?
6. Scientific Modelling & Social Values: Social Decisions in Modelling
7. Finale: Health Economics Modelling & Social Values
Full Series (for Presentation & Teaching)
Values & Healthcare: Public Engagement
Whiteboard animations, public service announcements and a short documentary on how healthcare gets funded and who decides.
1. Values & Healthcare: An Introduction
2. Values & Healthcare: Choosing Your Own Treatment
3. Values & Healthcare: Planning the Healthcare System
Health Economics ‘Listen’ Video
The Canadian Health System: 1-Minute Rhyme
Funding Healthcare: A Changing Environment
Funding Healthcare: What is ‘Health’?
Challenges in Funding Healthcare (short documentary)
Tutorials
Step-by-step guides to accessing models on the PMN cloud from Excel and R.
Accessing Decision Analytic Models in Excel
Accessing Clinical Prediction Models in R
Accessing Clinical Prediction Models in Excel
Talks & Lectures
Longer sessions with guest speakers on values, causal inference and how models should reflect what the public cares about.
Guest Lecture by Eric Winsberg: Value Judgments in Modeling and Causal Inference for Decision-Making
How Can Health Economic Models Best Reflect Patient and Public Values? Speaker Session
En français
French-language versions of selected PMN videos.