Upcoming Courses / Workshops
Teaching and Leading EBM: A Workshop for Educators and Champions of Evidence-Based Medicine
Date: March 12 – 15, 2013
Location:The Fuqua School of Business on the Duke University Campus, Durham, North Carolina, USA
Sponsor: Duke University School of Medicine
Purpose: This workshop is an intensive and interactive 4-day session designed to develop the knowledge and skills required to practice and teach evidence-based medicine. Sessions will feature a mix of both small and large group discussions, interactive lectures, and case-based studies. Participants will spend 36 hours in active and assigned coursework.
Evidence Live 2013
Date: March 25 – 26, 2013
Location: Oxford University Examination Schools, Oxford, England
Purpose: At the Evidence Live conference, researchers, clinicians and professionals working with evidence at different stages in the healthcare chain learn about important issues in healthcare. The program is designed to showcase the most innovative ideas, processes and best practices that form the foundations of an evidence-based approach. Skills workshops offered include: 1) How to get published in a top journal, 2) How to appraise randomized controlled trials and systematic reviews, 3) How to use social media, 4) How to teach evidence-based medicine, 5) How to do a peer review for a journal.
How to Practice Evidence-Based Health Care
Date: April 8 – 10, 2013
Location: St Hugh's College, Oxford, England
Purpose: This workshop is intended to serve as an introduction to evidence-based practice. It is aimed at clinicians and other health care professionals (including those involved in the field of mental health) who wish to gain knowledge of critical appraisal and experience in the practice of evidence-based health care.
The EBCP Workshop: Improving Your Practice/Teaching through Evidence-Based Clinical Practice
Date: June 10 – 14, 2013
Location: McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Purpose: Come to McMaster, the birthplace of evidence-based health-care, to join in one of two closely related workshops. The first caters to clinicians who wish to improve their clinical practice through enhanced skills in reading, interpreting, and applying the medical literature. The second is designed for clinician educators interested in enhancing their skills for teaching the principles of evidence-based practice to others. Both workshops are tailored to faculty and community internists, hospitalists, and senior and incoming chief residents.
19th Oxford Workshop on Teaching Evidence-Based Practice
Date: September 9 – 13, 2013
Location: St Hugh's College, Oxford, England
Purpose: This workshop is aimed at clinicians and other health care professionals, including those involved in mental health, who already have some knowledge of critical appraisal and experience in the practice of evidence-based health care and who want to explore issues around teaching evidence-based medicine. The workshop is NOT intended to serve as an introduction to evidence-based medicine itself.
EBHC International Joint Conference 2013: 2nd Conference of International Society for EBHC and 6th International Conference for EBHC Teachers and Developers
Date: October 30 – November 2, 2013
Location: Hotel Caparena, Taormina, Italy
Purpose: Meet EBHC teachers and developers from around the world in a 3-day program that will include renowned keynote speakers, oral abstract presentations, poster displays, survey with televoter, and productive small group sessions to encourage exchange and the development of new ideas.
Recently Passed Courses/Workshops
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Workshop on Evidence-Based Practice
Date: November 30, 2012
Location: Ewert House, Summertown, England
Purpose: The workshop is intended to serve as an introduction to evidence-based medicine. It is aimed at clinicians and other health care professionals who wish to gain knowledge of critical appraisal and experience in the practice of evidence-based health care.
First International Conference on Evidence Based Healthcare -the inaugural conference of the International Society for Evidence Based Healthcare
Date: October 6 – 8, 2012
Location: India International Centre, New Delhi, India
Purpose: The conference promises to be a very stimulating international event with delegates from all over the world, which will provide an excellent opportunity to bring together experts, teachers, and practitioners in evidence-based healthcare to exchange ideas, information and most up-to-date experiences in implementing Evidence-Based practice to enhance population health across different regions and diverse cultures.
14th Rocky Mountain Workshop on How to Practice Evidence-Based Health Care (EBHC Workshop)
Date: July 22 – 26, 2012
Location: Sheraton Resort in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, USA
Sponsor: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
Purpose: The Rocky Mountain Workshop on How to Practice Evidence-Based Health Care (EBHC Workshop) is a unique opportunity to spend time with internationally recognized experts involved in using evidence in patient care, healthcare policy creation, public health practice, guideline development, and teaching. Participants enjoy a 3:1 participant-to-tutor ratio, allowing for personal attention and relevant discussions in the plenary and small group meetings.
Seventh Annual PEP (Putting Evidence into Practice) Workshop
Date: June 20 – 22, 2012
Location: Edmonton Clinic Health Academy on the University of Alberta campus in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Sponsor: Alberta Research Centre for Health Evidence (ARCHE), University of Alberta, Knowledge Synthesis Canada, STAT!Ref, Wolters Kluwer, McGraw-Hill, Elsevier, Campus Tower Suite Hotel, Brand Alliance, Women & Children’s Health Research Institute
Purpose: Participants attending this workshop will engage in small group and plenary sessions to learn about knowledge synthesis and its application to healthcare practice. By working through relevant examples to develop skills in searching for and identifying appropriate evidence, participants will: 1) learn skills in critical appraisal and methods for knowledge synthesis, 2) integrate evidence into decision making, 3) network with international leaders in evidence-based practice, 4) discover new approaches to teaching evidence-based practice.
Evidence Based Decision Making in Urology: Assessing the Quality of Evidence
Using GRADE (2012 AUA Annual Meeting)
Date: May 21, 2012
Location: Georgia World Congress Center, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Purpose: This course is aimed at a broad spectrum of urologists and affiliated health care providers who are involved in individual patient care, education, clinical pathway development and policy-making, as well as those involved in guideline development. We will introduce urology-relevant resources to search and retrieve the latest clinical research studies and provide the tools to systematically evaluate these studies for the quality of evidence and formulate clinical recommendations using the Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation (GRADE) system. In practical exercises, we will first demonstrate how to formulate a focused clinical question that relates to patient relevant outcomes. We will then introduce a framework on how to assess the methodological strengths and weaknesses of randomized controlled trials and observational studies. Aside from study design, we will review other critical factors in determining the quality of evidence using the GRADE system. Finally, we will discuss how research evidence can be translated into treatment recommendations by considering the balance between desirable and undesirable consequences, the quality of evidence and the variability in patients’ values and preferences, and resource use.
