Introductory Course - Thursday, June 7 & Friday, June 8, 2007

Advanced Skills Course for Teachers - Saturday, June 9, 2007
(Introductory Course is a REQUIRED prerequisite for the Advanced Skills Course)

Tufts University School of Medicine
Arthur M. Sackler Center for Health Communications
145 Harrison Avenue
Boston, MA

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Introductory Course: This highly interactive two-day workshop presents practical strategies to access and manage clinical information for efficient, effective, evidence-based decision-making at the point of care.

Advanced Skills Course: Participants will be given instructions and materials enabling them to teach an Information Management curriculum at their home institutions.

Program Overview

Faced with a torrent of clinical information, practitioners must develop effective and efficient ways to access and evaluate useful content. This highly interactive program presents practical and user-friendly methods for gaining control of medical information at the point of care from the Web, hand-held computers (PDAs), and other expert sources. In 2007 the workshop will offer a third day of training geared toward teachers of health care practitioners-in-training.

Previous workshops have been attended by thousands of clinicians from all specialties and health care disciplines in the United States, Canada, England, Israel, Spain, Wales and Saudi Arabia. Participants have learned ways to increase their confidence in medical practice, prepare for the new maintenance of certification process, and increase efficiency in getting clinically relevant, valid information.

Who Should Attend

Physicians and other health care professionals engaged in direct patient care and in teaching other clinicians. This workshop is aimed at clinicians and educators who:

• Want to know how to use evidence-based techniques in a practical way to help them do their job.
  
  
• Want to learn how to select and use the best information tools available.
  
  
• Want to teach others how to deliver care using effective techniques and the highest quality information.

Course Directors

David Slawson, MD
Professor and Director,
Center for Information Mastery
Department of Family Medicine
University of Virginia

Allen F. Shaughnessy, PharmD
Director of Curriculum Development,
Tufts University Family Medicine Residency
at Cambridge Health Alliance
Tufts University School of Medicine

Marc Edelstein, MD, PhD
Chief Medical Officer,
Tufts Health Care Institute
Assistant Professor,
Public Health and Family Medicine
Tufts University School of Medicine