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
second 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, Paul
Glasziou,
Kev Hopayan, Janet Martin, James Osborne, Franz
Porzsolt, Bill Summerskill |
