Multiprofessional Evidence Based Healthcare Course

This 6-day course [over 6 weeks] is provided to all healthcare professionals who are responsible for applying evidence to their clinical practice.

The course content includes sessions on diagnostic tests, searching the literature, effectiveness of treatment, prognosis, clinical governance, systematic reviews and statistics. These areas are then explored in more depth in small group sessions.
Throughout the course each participant formulates a clinical question based on a clinical case presentation. They then search for the evidence, assess its validity and relevance to the clinical case and present this to the group on the final day.
Most participants are naive to EHBC and many have little experience in searching the literature, critically appraising the evidence and asking clinical questions. Many find the course a challenge but almost all have been surprised by how well they can use the knowledge gained on the course to grasp difficult concepts and to tease the evidence out of scientific papers.
By the end of this course the student should:
1.Know how to formulate an answerable, unambiguous clinical question
2.Know how to look for evidence relating to a clinical question
3.Know whether this evidence is good or not
4.Understand the terms-
Likelihood Ratio
Numbers needed to treat
Systematic review
Clinical trial
Odds Ratio/Risk Ratio
Confidence intervals
5.Be able to relate the above to a particular patient
6.Explain the knowledge underpinning Evidence Based Healthcare
7.Demonstrate the application of Evidence Based Healthcare principles in clinical practice
8.Use Evidence Based principals to critically reflect on clinical practice and published research

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