School of Population and Public Health
Annual 2014 City Wide Course in Evidence Based Medicine
THURSDAYS, February 13 to April 10, 2014 (8 classes)
REGISTRATION FORM
Name:
Department:
Email:
Please note: All course materials will be distributed digitally via Web CT /
Vista. In order to access this you will need a Campus Wide Log-in (CWL). If
you don’t have a CWL, you can create one using the link below. Make sure
you pick BASIC ACCOUNT.
https://www.cwl.ubc.ca/SignUp/cwlsubscribe/SelfSubscribeIndex.do
CWL (not the password,
just the login):
Registrant Classification
(Faculty, Staff, Community
Physician, Other)
Registrant Classification
(Fellow / Resident [Year])
Course Schedule:
8 weekly seminars
Thursdays, 1pm to 3pm
February 13 – April 10, 2014 (8 classes)
(No class February 20: Reading Week)
Location: Room 3336-1, 3rd floor Jim Pattison North, VGH
Instructor: Ralph Brands
To register please email or fax this form to:
Email: ada.kwong@ubc.ca
Fax: 604 822 4994
School of Population and Public Health
University of British Columbia,
2206 East Mall, Vancouver. B.C. V6T 1Z3
City-wide Course in Evidence-based Medicine: Course Overview
Our aim is to introduce you to the fundamentals of EBM, and to encourage and guide further
development of your skills.
The course (CWC) curriculum is based on a subset of a graduate course (Clinical Epidemiology,
SPPH 513) given at the School of Population and Public Health.
We will use the same course notes and materials, but the course expectations are quite different,
and material is presented in a little different order. Not all students will choose to prepare and
follow the entirety of the course curriculum online, or take advantage of the online content. Some
students may wish to only come to lectures after reviewing the presentation beforehand. Take a
look at the online material and decide how you want to approach the course. There is no marking
or evaluation for the course.
All course materials are available on the WebCT Vista platform, accessible electronically at UBC.
When you enroll, we will tell you by email how to access WebCT.
When you enter the course site on VISTA, you will see a number of main folder headings, starting
with Course Overview.
CWC students only need to look in the folders that correspond to our major topics
(Diagnosis, Clinical agreement etc; see Schedule below.) You can ignore the sections like
Major Project, Minor Project, and Text.
Each folder (Diagnosis, Therapy etc) contains all materials for the topic. Each has a Course
Module as well as a series of accompanying readings.
Lecture notes for each session are available as a pdf file on the course website prior to each
lecture. I generally bring a paper copy of these for your use during the lecture as well.
The Course Module for each topic (eg Diagnosis) is a pdf file which contains a series of exercises
that guide you through the learning component, making reference to and using the readings also
present in the folder as their basis.
Classes will consist of two hour periods where I lecture on or discuss the topics at hand.
Generally the lectures follow the format and questions you have been exposed to if you decided
to go through the problem-oriented material in the Course Module before class.
There is no marking or evaluation of your work in this course.
IMPORTANT NOTE: Although it overlaps somewhat with SPPH 513, the City-wide Course is not in
any way academically equivalent to SPPH 513. You will not be exempted from taking SPPH 513,
or given credit for SPPH 513 based on performance in, or completion of, the City-wide Course.
Academic expectations are much higher in SPPH 513, and include major and minor projects
which are not part of the City-wide Course.
City-wide Course in Evidence-based Medicine, Spring 2014
Course schedule
All classes in Room 3336-1, JPN3, VGH (1:00–3:00 PM)
WEEK
DATE
TOPIC
1
Feb 13
Diagnostic tests
Feb 20
UBC Spring Break – NO CLASS
2
Feb 27
Diagnostic tests (cont.)
3
Mar 6
Clinical agreement
4
Mar 13
Bias
5
Mar 20
Chance
6
Mar 27
Therapy
7
Apr 3
Prognosis
8
Apr 10
Management recommendations, meta-analysis, etc.