An Introduction to Evidence-based Dentistry

Moderators:

• Dr. Fariba Motevasselian
• Dr. Mohammad Reza Khami
• Dr. Hossein Hessari

Prof. Jorma Virtanen

University of Bergen, Norway

Prof. Saadika Khan

University of the Western Cape, South Africa

Prof. Nagendrababu Venkateshbabu

University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

Prof. Pulikkotil Shaju Jacob

International Medical University, Malaysia

Prof. Mohammad Hossein Nekoofar

 Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Iran

Prof. Mohammad Reza Khami

Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Iran

Prof. Ahmad Reza Shamshiri

Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Iran

Why join this course?

As health professionals, we have a professional responsibility to provide the best available care for our patients and community. With the fast growing knowledge in our age, the so-called “information explosion” age, it is becoming more and more impossible to rely just on what we learn during our formal undergraduate and postgraduate programs for our life-long practice. Life-long learning has already been known as an essential skill for all health professionals.

This program provides a conceptual and practical toolkit to current and future oral health professionals to enable them to keep themselves up to date.

What do you learn?

This will provide participants a theoretical basis and practical skills in evidence-based approach, literature search, and critical appraisal in order to better extract, sense and apply the most valid evidences in their routine daily practice.

Who can apply?

• Clinical dental students (third year and more)
• Holders of BDS, DDS, MSc, or specialty degree in the field of dental sciences

What are the learning outcomes?

Understand the importance of being up to date and life-long learning

• Be able to define evidence-based approach
• Be able to promote daily routine clinical queries to a clear question in PICO (Problem, Intervention, Comparison, and Outcome) format
• Be able to effectively and comprehensively search the literature and extract relevant articles
• Be able to critically appraise the literature, and extract and sense the latest evidences on the subject
• Be able to find the best available answer to the defined question

Programs on this course

Introduction to evidence-based dentistry (EBD): 2 hours

        -Why being up to date?

        -Steps of EBD

Defining a clear question: 4 hours

        -Various types of clinical questions

        -PICO approach for question definition

        -Interactive workshop

Searching for evidence-based resources:4 hours

        -Introduction to databases

        -Basic and advanced search strategies

        -Use of MeSH to search Medline database

        -Interactive workshop

Critical appraisal of the literature: 8 hours

        -Principles of critical appraisal

        -Classification of epidemiologic studies

        -Standardized reporting guidelines

        -Critical appraisal of cross-sectional studies

        -Critical appraisal of observational studies

        -Critical appraisal of RCTs

        -Critical appraisal of systematic reviews

        -Interactive workshop

Certificate:

Please be notified that only those who attend at least 4 days of the course will be awarded with certificate