Program: Weekend Educational Session

Coordinator: Dr Poobalan Naidoo

Topic: Real-time Evidence Based Medicine in general practice

Presenter: Dr Kumara Mendis, Senior Lecturer, University of Sydney

Format: EBM lecture demonstration

Date/Time: 14 February 2010, 15hr to 16 hr30

Prerequisites

EBM - RACGP Check Unit 433 April 2008

PubMed – Basic Tutorials http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/disted/pubmed.html

Formulate an answerable question using PICO/T from a patient narrative -

http://www.mihsr.monash.org/cce/pdf/ebpworkbook2006.pdf

Learning Objectives

At the end of this session registrars will be able to

• Demonstrate searching for journal articles and web sites using general search engines (Google, Google Scholar)
• Demonstrate doing a quick PubMed search using MeSH and Clinical Queries
• List three pre-appraised evidence resources that would be useful in a general practice set-up and describe advantages and drawbacks
• List at least one of each that would enable you to keep up to date as a busy GP
  • a) Journals that summarize other journals
  • b) Websites that summarize methodologically sound, clinically relevant articles
• Explain the difference between a ‘traditional review article’ and a ‘systematic review'
• List EBM resources for further reference - a) Introductory texts, b) Workbooks c) On-line calculators

Keywords/Phrases

Empirical research,  Cochran systematic reviews, Meta-analysis, clinical decisions

Lecture Outline

The formal presentation will outline aspects of EBM that is relevant to real-time general practice

A lecture note will be available at this site within the next 2 days

Reference to the RACGP Curriculum

This topic refers to critical thinking and reasoning and in particular to decision making. In addition it has relevance to prescribing in practice