Learning EBP in North Carolina
Teaching and Leading EBM
March 2011
Durham, North Carolina
This is an innovative 4-day workshop designed to help clinical leaders and educators enhance their EBM skills. Held in the R. David Thomas Executive Conference Center in Durham, NC, Teaching and Leading EBM will take you out of your normal routine to meet with peers, expert faculty, and EBM mentors in a wonderful learning atmosphere that will promote mutual professional growth.
Sheri A. Keitz, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Dean for Faculty Diversity and Development
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Chief of Medical Service
Miami VAMC
305-573-3160
skeitz@med.miami.edu
Connie Schardt, MLS
Associate Director for Public Services
Medical Center Library
Duke University Medical Center
919-660-1124
connie.schardt@duke.edu
Learning EBP in USA and Canada
United States:
18th Cochrane Colloquium
October 18 - 22, 2010
Keystone, Colorado, USA
In 2010 the Joint Colloquium of the Cochrane & Campbell Collaborations will be held at the Keystone Resort in Colorado, USA. This will be the first time for these two groups to hold a joint colloquium. This colloquium will focus on raising evidence-based decision-making to new heights. In this region, known for its towering mountain peaks and natural beauty, we will come together for multidisciplinary learning and sharing at its best.
14th Annual Information Mastery: A Practical Approach to
Evidence-Based Medicine
Tuft's Health Care Institute
November 18-20, 2010
Boston, Massachussets
Introductory Course: This interactive two-day workshop presents practical strategies to access and manage clinical information for efficient, effective, evidence-based decision-making at the point of care.
Advanced Skills Course: Participants will be given instructions and materials enabling them to teach an Information Management curriculum at their home institutions.
2011 Summer Institute on Evidence-Based Practice
July 2011
Hyatt Regency Riverwalk Hotel
San Antonio, TX
This two and a half day Institute on EBP is geared toward preparing health providers for an
increasingly active role in EBP to improve patient care outcomes through evidence-based
quality improvement. The interdisciplinary conference equips providers to implement EBP and focuses on building EBP infrastructure and climates.
13th Annual Rocky Mountain Workshop on How to Practice Evidence-Based Health Care
July 2011
Colorado
The Department of Preventive Medicine and the Rocky Mountain Prevention Research Center will present the 13th Rocky Mountain Workshop on How to Practice Evidence-Based Health Care, July 2011. This five-day workshop will focus on teaching the basics of, and developing further insights into, the conscientious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients or the delivery of health services.
Supporting Clinical Care: An Institute in Evidence-Based Practice for Medical Librarians
August 2011
Dartmouth College
Hanover, New Hampshire
This is an intensive, introductory, 2.5 day course designed for medical librarians by medical librarians. Through large group interactive lectures, small group discussion, and hands-on, case-based learning, you'll acquire skills needed to support and teach evidence-based clinical practice (EBCP).
Canada:
18th Annual "How To Teach Evidence-Based Clinical Practice" Workshop
June 2011
McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
This workshop has two main objectives:
- To help participants advance their critical appraisal skills, and their skills in acknowledging and incorporating values and preferences in clinical decision making
- To help participants learn how to teach EBCP using a variety of educational models
International EBP Learning Opportunities
Evidence 2010: Transforming Healthcare 
November 1-2, 2010
London, England
The aims of the conference are to:
* Improve evidence-based decision making
* Develop ideas for using evidence in practice
* Foster effective innovation
* Guide efficient commissioning
* Provide education and training to improve evidence-based healthcare
Deadline for registration is August 6, 2010
Workshop on Evidence-Based Practice
November 26, 2010
Oxford, England
16th Oxford Workshop in Teaching Evidence-Based Practice
September 6-10, 2010
Oxford, England
Postgraduate Courses in Evidence-Based Health Care
Oxford Health Sciences
University of Oxford
Oxford, England
Oxford Health Sciences courses and programs are regularly reviewed and updated to ensure that health professionals are able to adapt to the most current demands of modern health service delivery. They offer postgraduate qualifications, short courses, as well as workshops and conferences.
6th International EBHC Teachers & Developers Conference
Fall 2011
The program aims to foster international exchange and networking in the mutual pursuit of better tools, techniques, and curriculums for teaching and achieving EBHC.
6th International Evidence Based Library and Information Practice Conference
Summer 2011
Salford, UK
EBLIP6, the sixth in a series of successful International Conferences to
promote evidence based approaches to library and information practice,
will take place in Salford, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom in the
summer of 2011.
For more international learning opportunities, see Evidence-Based Health at http://www.cebm.net/ This Web site was developed by the NHS Research and Development: Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine at Oxford University.
Learning EBP Online
Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine
http://cebm.utoronto.ca/intro/index.php
The goal of this website is to help develop, disseminate, and evaluate resources that can be used to practice and teach EBM for undergraduate, postgraduate and continuing education for health care professionals from a variety of clinical disciplines. This site also serves as a support for the book entitled, Evidence-based Medicine: How to Practice and Teach EBM , 3rd ed., by Sharon E. Straus, W. Scott Richardson, Paul Glasziou, and R. Brian Haynes."
Evidence Based Practice Tutorial for Nurses
http://www.libraries.psu.edu/instruction/ebpt-07/index.htm
The basic aim of this EBP tutorial is to walk you through these steps in an effort to make the process easier and more understandable for you.
Evidence-Based Practice for Public Health
http://library.umassmed.edu/ebpph/
Evidence-based practice for public health involves using the best available evidence to make informed public health practice decisions. This website provides free online access to evidence-based public health (EBPH) resources, knowledge domains of public health , and public health journals and databases .
Evidence Based Medicine (EBM)
http://www.mclibrary.duke.edu/subject/ebm
Duke University Medical Center Library:
This Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) site is designed to assist faculty, house staff, and students inunderstanding and teaching the principles involved in practicing EBM.
Evidence-Based Medicine and the Medical Librarian
http://sils.unc.edu/programs/continuing_ed/ebm.html
The course is designed as an introduction for medical librarians to the practice of evidence-based medicine (EBM). Practicing EBM means combining clinical expertise, the preferences and values of the patient and the best available evidence to make good patient care decisions.
Introduction to Evidence-Based Medicine
http://www.hsl.unc.edu/Services/Tutorials/EBM/index.htm
Medical Center Library, Duke University and Health Sciences Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
This self-paced tutorial will take you through the complete EBM process, emphasizing the elements of a well built clinical question and the key issues that help determine the validity of evidence.
MLA Online Courses
http://www.mlanet.org/education/web/index.html
The Evidence-based Practice (EBP) tutorials are tailored to five health science disciplines: applied health, dentistry, medicine, nursing, and pharmacy. Each tutorial consists of five instructional modules, covering topics such as the research design, searching the literature, and evaluating the quality of research. These tutorials are intended for those first learning about EBP as well as those looking to review EBP concepts and strategies.
Evidence Based Medicine: Finding the Best Clinical Literature
http://www.uic.edu/depts/lib/lhsp/resources/ebminternet.shtml
This EBM guide is designed to assist health care professionals and students become effective and efficient users of the medical literature. Topics covered: PICO, levels of evidence, searching MEDLINE, clinical filters, EBM databases, EBM publications, and EBM internet resources.
Search the Medical Literature for the Best Evidence http://www.hsl.unc.edu/Services/Guides/EBMPubMed.cfm
Health Sciences Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC
Evidence Based Medicine (UMass)
http://library.umassmed.edu/EBM/tutorials/index.cfm
Lamar Soutter Library at the University of Massachusetts Medical School has developed a simple yet in depth online tutorial for Evidence Based Medicine. This resource looks and feels more like an online course than a tutorial. It is easy to navigate and includes a number of internal links allowing users to decide their own pace.
SUNY Downstate Medical Center Evidence Based Medicine Tutorial
http://library.downstate.edu/EBM2/contents.htm
Medical Research Library of Brooklyn, SUNY Downstate Medical Center
The tutorial introduces EBM principles and strategies used in searching and evaluating the literature.
If you are sponsoring an Evidence-Based Health Care continuing education event and would like to be included on this list, please contact Jill Mayer at (919) 966-0960 or jbmayer@email.unc.edu
This section compiled by: Jill Mayer
Jill Mayer, Health Sciences Library, UNC-CH
Last modified on
July 21, 2010