Critical Appraisal Workshop
Agenda
The Critical Appraisal Workshop is a comprehensive guide to critical appraisal knowledge and skills. This is a practical training event, with short exercises on excerpts from clinical papers and longer exercises on complete clinical papers.
| Pre-course work (optional) | |
|---|---|
| Critical Appraisal Online Course (instant access after booking) | |
| Agenda for day 1 - Using short exercises & clinical papers workbooks | |
| 0830 | Registration |
| 0900 | Introduction to evidence-based practice |
| 0910 | The clinical question; primary hypothesis; subgroup analysis; confounding |
| 0930 | Types of study design |
| 1015 | Sampling |
| 1030 | Bias |
| 1045 | Refreshment break |
| 1100 | Matching; randomisation |
| 1130 | Blinding |
| 1200 | Reliability; validity; outcomes |
| 1230 | Lunch |
| 1330 | Describing and summarising data |
| 1400 | Risks and odds |
| 1500 | Null hypothesis and p values |
| 1545 | Refreshment break |
| 1600 | Appraising a case-control study |
| 1700 | Appraising a randomised controlled trial (1) |
| 1800 | Close |
| Agenda for day 2 - Using short exercises & clinical papers workbooks | |
| 0900 | Appraising a randomised controlled trial (2) |
| 1000 | Appraising a randomised controlled trial (3) |
| 1045 | Refreshment break |
| 1100 | Correlation and regression |
| 1130 | Appraising a prognostic (survival) study |
| 1230 | Lunch |
| 1330 | Appraising a diagnostic study |
| 1430 | Appraising a systematic review / meta-analysis (1) |
| 1500 | Refreshment break |
| 1515 | Appraising a systematic review / meta-analysis (2) |
| 1630 | Feedback and close |
| Post-course work | |
| Critical Appraisal Online Course (access for 6 months) | |
| The Doctor's Guide to Critical Appraisal book (included in the delegate pack) |