Welcome to Clinical Data Models and Data Quality Assessments. My name is Michael Kahn, I am a Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. This is the second course in the clinical data science specialization, a series of six courses that provides practical, hands-on training in using electronic medical record data. In the first week of this course, you will learn what clinical data models are and why they are so useful for clinical data science. In week two, we'll take a deep dive into two clinical data models that we'll be using throughout the course. You will understand the differences, benefits, and drawbacks of each model. Week three, we'll teach you how clinical data scientists use extraction, transformation, and load or ETL methods to get data from electronic medical records into these clinical data models. You'll also learn how to do data profiling to make sure that these transformations were done correctly. This will prepare you for the more advanced lessons in data quality assessments you found in week four. In this week, you will learn how to determine whether a dataset can be used to answer a particular clinical question. Finally, week five will give you a chance to demonstrate everything you have learned with a real-world example. By the end of this course, you will have the foundational knowledge and the hands-on experience wrangling real-world data and be prepared to solve clinical problems and make new data science discoveries. It is time to stop talking to start digging into the messy land of real-world data, glad you're here for the ride.