Improving Your Practice/Teaching Through Evidence-Based Clinical Practice

2012 Workshop:
Improving Your Practice/Teaching Through Evidence-Based Clinical Practice

Week of Monday June 4, 2012

Welcome to the 19th Annual
Workshop: Improving Your Practice/Teaching Through Evidence-Based Clinical Practice.

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.

Who should come?

The workshop accepts clinicians from a wide variety of backgrounds; there are typically groups in internal medicine, pediatrics, emergency medicine, surgery, family medicine, gastroenterology, a Spanish group and a French group.

The leader among international EBM workshops

This international workshop caters to all those interested in medical education, and may be of particular interest to program directors, chief residents, hospitalists, and educators with a focus on continuous quality improvement/quality assurance.

EBCP Workshop: Improving Your Practice/Teaching Through Evidence-Based Clinical Practice is aimed at clinicians, physicians, nurses, pharmacists, occupational and physiotherapists, dentists, chiropractors and other health-care professionals who wish to go beyond simply learning evidence-based clinical practice (EBCP) and advance their skills in communicating EBCP concepts. The workshop uses small-group formats for participants to practice their skills. Participants should be prepared to practice their own teaching in the small group format.

You will find, in this website, a detailed description of the objectives of the workshop, the small group learning format and how it works, examples of teaching materials the workshop uses, and several videos that illustrate the sort of EBCP teaching the workshop facilitates.

Special Offer

  Canadian Currency
Sign up one member from your team or institution $2800.00
Sign up two members from your team or institution $2500.00 each
Sign up three or more members from your team or institution $2200.00 each

What is Evidence-Based Clinical Practice / Evidence-Based Medicine?

Evidence-based clinical practice (EBCP) or evidence-based medicine (EBM) is an approach to health care practice that explicitly acknowledges the evidence that bears on each patient management decision, the strength of that evidence, the benefits and risk of alternative management strategies, and the role of patients' values and preferences in trading off those benefits and risks.