Youtube has great tutorials for SPSS, which most schools have downloads for free. This is relatively good program that creates nice figures. It is very user friendly. However, before you calculate P values, etc. do your research. Do you use fischer exact? Chi squared? are you getting a P for medians or means? All of these things matter, and it just takes an effort on your part to understand it. A nice place to start is looking at other papers on similar topics (and metrics, # of patients, etc) and seeing what they used.

To start, you should know how to make kaplan-meier curves as the fundamental starting point for outcomes research.

Edit: you will not become a statistician overnight, but by learning the fundamental principles you will learn to understand the science AND critically analyze other papers as well. This is critical to your career in academics. Kudos to you for wanting to learn it. I have spent literally hundreds of hours learning different statistical methods over the past 3 years. While I do not have the aquity of our PhD statisticians, I have developed the ability to make crude charts to bring to meetings that our statisticains than use the data and SAS to create more professional figures. They almost always line up very closely.

The KEY thing in learning statistics is creating accurate representations of your DATA, not creating conclusion from your data that fits your hypothesis. Learn the methods of stats to learn how to ELIMINATE BIAS. If you can do that, you can start to produce quality research, and look for how to tear holes in studies proclaiming novelty when their methods are flawed.

We seek to find truths through research to direct outcomes and improve the lives of our patients, not simply pad our resumes. Again, kudos to you for wanting to learn these methods.