New Short Course - Instant Evidence Based Medicine: How to Critically Appraise Research - 1 day course: Tuesday, 22nd September 2020

Instant Evidence Based Medicine: How to Critically Appraise Research

1 day course:  Tuesday, 22nd September 2020

What is it about?

Halifax Hall

This course will look at how to understand and appraise research articles. We will learn how to quickly read a paper and grasp its key findings, how to interpret and understand key data, how to appraise a paper’s methods and assess its usefulness and value. We will look at ‘internal validity’ - how close the research has got to the ‘truth’, and ‘external validity’ - can the research be usefully applied in our own work situation? Overall the course aims to help you become a better user of research.

During the day we will look at a typical healthcare scenario where evidence could inform decision-making, then appraise a paper - looking for key findings and assessing its suitability and applicability to the scenario. We will also look at numerous tools available to help with the appraisal process.

Who Will Benefit from the Course?

Angie Rees

Anyone who uses or would like to use research more in their work, or who would like to
build quickly build confidence in reading and interpreting research, including:

● Academics & Researchers
● Health and social care clinicians/practitioners
● Post graduate students
● Health Librarians and Information Specialists

 Course Materials

Course Materials will be provided via a Delegate Course Website approximately 1 week prior to the course start date. Hard copies of exercises will be provided throughout the course as necessary. Hard copies of PowerPoint presentations will not be provided, but these can be printed by delegates before the start of the course via the Delegate Course Website.

Course Faculty

Angie Rees

Dates

1 day course: Tuesday, 22nd September 2020

Times

Start: 9:30am with registration, for a prompt course start at 10am.

Finish: 4pm

Fees

£199 - Early Bird Rate for confirmed bookings received on or before 11pm on Wednesday, 22nd July 2020.

£299 - Standard Rate for confirmed booking received on or after 11pm on Tuesday, 8th September 2020.

Bookings will automatically close at 11pm on Tuesday, 8th September 2020.

Booking and Payment

Provisional bookings are now being accepted.  Please email your details to Karen Holden at scharr-scu@sheffield.ac.uk.  You will be contacted once the course has gone live, on our Online Store

All of our short course bookings are initially processed through our Online Store. Payment is required at the time of booking (Credit/Debit card or PayPal is accepted).

If your employer is paying your fees and they would prefer to be invoiced, please ensure you select the Invoice Option and ensure you have your Purchase Order details before making your booking. Bookings are NOT confirmed until receipt of the Purchase Order is received at scharr-scu@sheffield.ac.uk.

Bookings will close automatically at 11pm on Tuesday, 8th September 2020.

If you have any queries relating to fees and payment, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Accommodation and Meals

The course fee includes lunch and refreshments throughout the day plus all course materials (provided via Website and on USB) and teaching fees. 

No accommodation is included.  We do however, have a preferential rate of £70 at Halifax Hall and £50 per night at our new Jonas Hotel, which is situated behind Halifax Hall.  Details are automatically provided upon receipt of your booking or contact Karen Holden at scharr-scu@sheffield.ac.uk for further details.

If you have any particular dietary or access requirements then please contact the Short Course Unit with your requirements at the time of booking.

Venue

Halifax Hall Hotel and Conference Centre, Endcliffe Vale Road, Sheffield.  S10 3ER.

www.halifaxhall.co.uk

Contact

For further information please do not hesitate to contact the Short Course Unit via email at scharr-scu@sheffield.ac.uk

or call +44 (0)114 222 2968.

Website of the month - Ask for Evidence

This month's website of the month is Ask for Evidence http://askforevidence.org/index

According to their website, Ask for Evidence is a public campaign that helps people request for themselves the evidence behind news stories, marketing claims and policies.

We hear daily claims about what is good for our health, bad for the environment, how to improve education, cut crime, treat disease or improve agriculture. Some are based on reliable evidence and scientific rigour. Many are not.

Ask for Evidence isn’t about leading an ‘evidence-based life’; it is about holding powerful figures to account and not having the wool pulled over our eyes on important issues. It is making sure that a discussion of the evidence is happening when it really matters. That might be when a public figure or authority makes a claim or decision on our behalf; or when public money or our health or safety is at stake.

Ask for Evidence is supported by hundreds of public figures, organisations and thousands of supporters such as Mumsnet, NHS Behind the Headlines and the Royal Statistical Society. The campaign has received core funding from The Esmée Fairbairn Foundation and this website was built thanks to support from the Wellcome Trust.

http://askforevidence.org/index

Ask for Evidence was launched by Sense about Science in 2011. Sense about Science is a charity that helps people to make sense of science and evidence and promote use of evidence in public life. This takes us from responding to outlandish diet claims by celebrities to helping parents understand vaccines, from working with people with chronic diseases to beat misleading ‘cure’ claims on the Internet to pressing for sound use of statistics in media reporting.

HEDS Short Course - Instant Evidence Based Medicine: How to Quickly Synthesise Research

HEDS Short Course - Instant Evidence Based Medicine: How to Quickly Synthesise Research


1 day course - Tuesday 12th February 2019

Overview: This course will introduce participants to the concept of research synthesis and explore simple ways to rapidly bring evidence together to inform decision making. During the day we will undertake a search for high quality evidence to answer a clinical question. We will then look at ways of identifying the findings/key themes from the research and present various methods/tools to quickly bring the results together to form a useful overview of the evidence quickly and effectively.
If you are new to research synthesis or need to expand your skill set to include rapid synthesis the this course will be ideal. It will offer an introduction to synthesis for those who do not need to undertake full scale systematic reviews, but would like to be able to bring research findings together simply and quickly to form a clear picture.

Link to our online store, for all ScHARR short course bookings:
https://onlineshop.shef.ac.uk/conferences-and-events/faculty-of-medicine-dentistry-and-health/school-of-health-and-related-research-scharr

If you require further information, please do not hesitate to contact the ScHARR Short Course Unit via this email address.
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Mrs Karen Holden
Short Courses & Events Officer
University of Sheffield
ScHARR
Regent Court
30 Regent Street
Sheffield
S1 4DA
Tel:  0114 222 2968
Fax: 0114 272 4095
http://www.shef.ac.uk/scharr/shortcourseunit

The early bird booking rate for this course will close 12th December 2018

Standard booking will close 29th January 2019

Link to further course information: https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/scharr/shortcourseunit/synthesise-research2019