EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE RESOURCES: TOOLS FOR EFFICIENT CLINICAL PRACTICE

EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE RESOURCES:
TOOLS FOR EFFICIENT CLINICAL PRACTICE

NEW YORK ACADEMY OF MEDICINE

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2002

6:30 PM-9:00 PM

Sponsored by the Evidence-based Medicine Committee of the New York Chapter of the American College of Physicians-American Society of Internal Medicine and the New York Academy of Medicine Section of Emergency Medicine

THE PROGRAM:

Evidence-based answers to clinical questions (in less than two minutes).
Evidence-based information on alternative and complementary therapies.
Useful patient education materials without pharmaceutical advertising.
Usable material to download to a hand-held computer.

AND

HOW TO ASSESS THE VALIDITY OF WHAT YOU FIND

TARGET AUDIENCE:

Internists, emergency medicine physicians and medical librarians will benefit. While some computer skills and some knowledge of evidence-based medicine will be useful, they are not necessary to gain from this session.

OBJECTIVES:

To gain familiarity with state-of–the-art evidence-based databases and other resources available to support clinical practice.
To understand how to assess the validity of the answers found to clinical questions.
To explore evidence-based alternative and complementary medicine resources in order to deal more effectively with patients’ interests in such modalities.
To learn where to access reliable, non-drug company patient education "handouts".
To be updated on evidence-based data bases available for handheld computers.

THERE IS NO FEE TO ATTEND THE MEETING BUT SEATING IS LIMITED, SO PLEASE RESPOND BY JANUARY 21, 2002 TO:

Linda Schmitt

email: lschmitt@nyacpasim.org; Phone: (516) 328-7868

Beverages will be served. Limited parking at the NYAM. Indoor parking available at Mt. Sinai Medical Center on 98^th Street.

The American College of Physicians-American Society of Internal Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The ACP-ASIM designates this educational activity for a maximum of 2.5 hours in category 1 credit towards the AMA Physician’s Recognition Award. Each physician should claim only those hours of credit that he/she actually spent in the educational activity.