Evidence-based veterinary medicine - online CPD
MON 19 APRIL TO SUN 30 MAY 2010
Course fee: £509.00
This online CPD course has been designed to introduce practitioners to evidence-based veterinary medicine. Practitioners who are interested in thinking more deeply and critically about the reasons for their choice of drugs or treatments will find this a
fascinating and illuminating course that will enhance their critical thinking skills and knowledge of the particular areas of veterinary medicine that interests them.
Key areas
By the end of this course, participants should be able to:
• Explain what is meant by “evidence-based veterinary medicine”
• Formulate an answerable clinical question
• Identify and search sources of evidence
• Critically evaluate available evidence
• Apply current best evidence in the decision-making process for individual patients
Course outline
Week 1: Identifying scenarios that lend themselves to EBVM approach and formulating answerable clinical questions
Week 2: Refine clinical questions and finding evidence
Weeks 3 -5: Critical evaluation of evidence
Week 6: Integration of evidence in individual patient decision making and self-evaluation
What previous participants have said
"This e-CPD course was a very positive experience in the topic of EBVM in which studying and working on own scenarios and appraisals was necessary. I could make my own timetable. I could determine my own workload. A very good course which I can absolute recommend!"
TUTORS:
David Brodbelt,
MA, VetMB, PhD, DVA, Dipl ECVA, MRCVS
Lecturer in Companion Animal Epidemiology
The Royal Veterinary College
Kristien Verheyen, DVM MSc PhD MRCVS
Senior Lecturer in Clinical Epidemiology
The Royal Veterinary College