Welcome to real-time Evidence Based Practice

We hope you will enjoy this session and will be helpful to you when you really see patients.

Can you please take a few minutes to answer the pre-session questionnaire?

Pre-session survey

Venue & Time

• University of Sydney, Main Campus, Edward Ford Building, Room 330
• Next session - October 29th Thursday 9.30 AM - 12.30 PM

During the sessions

1) Please keep your mobile phones on SILENT mode

2) Do not use the PRINTER during the sessions

3) The IMPORTANT slides are the RED ones

(A set of slides will be emailed at the end of the session)

5) Please ask questions/clarifications during the sessions

6) During the demonstration of specific resources/skills please observe without interrupting

7) At the END of the session please complete the POST-Questionnaire before you leave

THANK YOU FOR YOUR COOPERATION

Hope this session will be an enjoyable, educative and helps to improve patient care.

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Lesson plan

• This hands-on session is an introduction to real-time evidence-based practice

Prerequisites

• Successful completion of PEARLS during 3rd Year USydMP
• Basic use of Google, PubMed, OVID

Objectives

At the end of this session you must be able to

• Define evidence based practice and explain why it is important in real time practice
• Formulate a PICO/T from a patient narrative
• Demonstrate using Google, Google Scholar and Scirus to search for journal articles and web sites
• Demonstrate doing a PubMed search using MeSH and Clinical Queries within 15 minutes
• Demonstrate doing an OVID search with multiple database searches within 15 minutes
• List five pre-appraised evidence resources that would be useful in a general practice set-up and describe advantages and drawbacks of each resource
• List at least one of each below and describe how you would use these to keep up to date
• a) Journals that summarise other journals
• b) Websites that summarise methodologically sound, clinically relevant journal articles
• c) Explain how you would choose a ‘text book of general medicine’
• Describe the 5S model of organization of information resources and explain how you use the model when searching for evidence
• Explain the difference between a ‘traditional review article’ and a ‘systematic review'

Duration

• Three hours including a 30 min break

Format

• Hands-on (50%) , Didactic (25%), Discussion/Interactive (25%)
• Pre & Post questionnaires to ascertain your confidence in EBM practice and to evaluate the session
• Your feedback (both positive and negative/constructive) will be wellcome and essential to the session

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