Learning EBM in North Carolina 

Teaching and Leading EBM: A Workshop for Teachers and Champions
of Evidence-Based Medicine
April 22-25, 2008
Thomas Center on the Duke University campus
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.

For more information see the course website at:
http://www.mclibrary.duke.edu/training/courses/ebmworkshop/

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

Thomas A. Owens, M.D.
Co-Director, Medicine and Pediatrics Residency Program
Duke University Medical Center
919-620-5374
thomas.owens@duke.edu

Connie Schardt, MLS
Associate Director for Public Services
Medical Center Library
Duke University Medical Center
919-660-1124
connie.schardt@duke.edu

Learning EBM in USA and Canada

United States:

Information Mastery
Introductory Course for Clinicians and Teachers: June 5-6, 2008
Advanced Skills Course for Teachers: June 7, 2008
Boston, Mass

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.

2008 Summer Institute on Evidence-Based Practice
Innovation for Quality & Safety
July 26-28, 2008
San Antonio, Texas

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.

10th Rocky Mountain Workshop on How to Practice Evidence-Based Health Care
July 27-31, 2008
Midway, Utah

The Department of Preventive Medicine and the Rocky Mountain Prevention Research Center will present the 10th Rocky Mountain Workshop on How to Practice Evidence-Based Health Care/, July 27-31, 2008. 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
July 28-30, 2008
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:

How To Teach Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Workshop
June 8-13, 2008
McMaster University, Hamilton, 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 EBM Learning Opportunities

Evidence-based healthcare on the web
June 26, 2008 or November 19, 2008
London, England

CILIP (Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals) offers a hands-on course which cuts through the maze and focuses on reliable, solid information freely available on the web, with an emphasis on sources of evidence-based information. Topics include introduction to EB healthcare, evidence resources on the web, discovery tools for EB healthcare information, and using methodology filters to search for EB healthcare documents.

Oxford Workshop on Evidence-Based Diagnostics
July 21-23, 2008
St Anne's College, Oxford

The workshop is open to clinicians and laboratory staff who are interested in how to improve their usage and interpretation of diagnostic tests.

14th Oxford Workshop on Teaching Evidence-Based Practice
September 8-12, 2008
St. Hugh's College, Oxford, UK

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.

16th Cochrane Colloquium: Evidence in the Era of Globalization
October 3-7, 2008
Freiburg, Germany

The Cochrane Colloquium 2008 offers an outstanding opportunity to interact with central players active in evidence-based health care, global knowledge management, and systematic reviews. Catch up on current international developments and perspectives and attend workshops to delve further into individual topics.

The Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (CRD), based at the University of York,
offers courses in literature searchig, health technology assessment and health
economics, as well as the following:

Systematic reviews and critical appraisal

Evidence-based health care

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.

5th International Conference on Evidence Based Library and Information Practice (EBLIP5)
June 29 - July 3, 2009
Stockholm, Sweden

This exciting international conference has grown out of an increasing interest in using the best available evidence to improve library and information practice in all types of libraries. The call for papers will open in May 2008.

For more international learning opportunities, see Evidence-Based Health Calendar of Events at http://www.cebm.net/calendar.asp This Web site was developed by the NHS Research and Development: Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine at Oxford University.

Learning EBM Online

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.

Filtering the Wisdom: Searching and Delivering the Evidence for Clinical Care Questions
http://cech.mlanet.org/node/173

This 5-week online course, sponsored by the Medical Library Association, will provide librarians with the tools necessary to enhance their evidence-based search skills and to deliver filtered search results to health care professionals. Librarians will gain a basic understanding of the types of evidence-based resources and levels of evidence for clinical questions, and they will be able to design search strategies to retrieve focused, evidence-based information.

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.

Evidence-Based Medicine and the Medical Librarian
http://sils.unc.edu/programs/continuing_ed/ebm.html

This eight-week 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.

Evidence-Based Knowledge Portal
http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/biolib/ebmportal/

This Evidence-Based Knowledge Portal, developed by the Eskind Biomedical Library with NLM grant funding, includes tutorials addressing facets of statistical analysis and critiquing the medical literature. Virtual practice cases allow users to explore principles of EBM in the context of a clinical scenario. Must request a password for access.



Searching the Medical Literature for the Best Evidence
Health Sciences Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC

This tutorial is designed to teach the user how to select and search key resources in locating evidence-based information for clinical decision-making. The emphasis of this tutorial is on understanding how and when to use core EBM resources and techniques for productive searching. Resources covered inthis tutorial are: UpToDate, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, ACP Journal Club, and PubMed Clinical Queries

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.

An Introduction to Information Mastery
http://www.poems.msu.edu/infomastery/

This is a Web-based course that introduces the basic concepts of Information Mastery, Evidence-Based Medicine (EBP), and critical appraisal of the medical literature. The course was developed by Dr. Mark Ebell at Michigan State University.

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, Health Sciences Library, UNC-CH
Last modified on April 23, 2008