Abstract deadline: June
20th, 2003 - Registration deadline June 30th, 2003
2nd International Conference of
Evidence-Based Health Care Teachers & Developers
Sign posting the future in EBHC
Utveggio Castle, Palermo (Italy),
10th-14th September, 2003
Hosted by GIMBE and CERISDI
with institutional support
of
Arcispedale S. Maria Nuova, CASP International Network, Oxford-Centre
for Evidence-based Medicine,
Ludwig Maximilian University, University of Bristol
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www.ebhc.org
The need for health professionals to learn to access and understand
evidence has become ever larger with the increasing volume of health care
research.
The First Conference of Evidence-Based Health Care Developers &
Teachers took place on the 12th September 2001. This landmark event
enabled the international exchange of experience and knowledge and the
exploration of contemporary experiments and developments. It was made
possible by the emergence of the
GIMBE.
EBHC is being taught around the world in diverse settings but the
problems faced by teachers are very similar. The processes for teaching
and their evaluation were shared in plenaries, small groups and informal
discussion.
The 2nd International Conference of Evidence-Based Health Care Teachers
& Developers builds on that first experience and shifts the focus to
the future: the theme is sign posting directions to developing tools and
strategies to support teaching and implementing EBHC and to future
research.
We are confident that our invitation in Sicily will be appreciated by the
international community of EBHC developers & teachers, so to enable
us to put up a good scientific meeting in an atmosphere not only as warm
as expected in a Mediterranean country, but also very rich in cultural
stimuli.
The Conference Steering Committee
Amanda Burls, Nino Cartabellotta, Martin Dawes, John Geddes, Paul
Glasziou,
Kev Hopayan, Janet Martin, James Osborne, Franz Porzsolt, Bill
Summerskill
All information concerning
the Conference is available and continuously updated on the Conference
web site
www.ebhc.org,
where the abstract form as well as the registration forms can be
downloaded.