Evidence-Based Practice is the core of professional healthcare practice. This workshop will discuss resources for evidence-based practice, and after considering hierarchies of evidence, will focus on filtered resources including the Cochrane Library, everyday apps, and clinical decision support tools including BMJ Best Practice. You will discover where to find and access evidence and consider how evidence can be used with patients. 

By the end of the session participants will be able to:

•  Understand where and how to look for information
• Understand the hierarchies of evidence
• Understand the difference between filtered and unfiltered resources
• Understand and use point of care tools including BMJ Best Practice
• Access evidence on different devices
• Consider how to use evidence with patients
  
  

GMC Professional Capabilities Framework – Domain 3, 8 ,9; NMC Code – Sections 6.1, 6.2, 9.4;
GPhC Professional Standards – Standard 4; HCPC Conduct, performance, ethics 3.3, 3.4, 3.5;
IHM Code of Practice - Prof, Open, Respon; SfH Code of Conduct - 3.6, 4.3, 6.3, 6.4

Whether it’s a clinical query or an assessment, finding the strongest evidence requires searching beyond Google and PubMed with thorough search strategies. This session introduces participants to the Health Database Advanced Search (HDAS) database platform and a variety of search tips from the basic through to the more advanced, allowing for more confident evidence searching.

By the end of the session, participants will be able to:

• Develop a search strategy from a clinical query, using PICO as appropriate
• Understand the difference between text word and subject heading searches
• Run a search in more than one database using Health Database Advanced Search (HDAS)
• Manage search results
• Distinguish between resources provided by Imperial College and those available through NHS OpenAthens
• Know how to access what they need 

HCPC Standards 2.5, 2.6, 3.3, 3.4, 10.1; GMC Framework Domain 3, 6, 9;
NMC Code 6.1, 6.2, 8.6, 9.4, 22.3; GPhC Standards 1, 4, 5; IHM Code Respo, Pro;
SfH Code of Conduct 3.6, 6.4, 6.6

Critical appraisal and evidence-based medicine can seem daunting, but with practice and confidence anyone can pick up the necessary skills to improve their engagement with, and understanding of, the literature.

This session is aimed at those with no prior experience of critical appraisal but would be a good refresher for anyone who wants more practice. The focus will be on quantitative research.

By the end of the session participants will be able to:

• Understand what critical appraisal is and why it is useful
• Distinguish between different research methods and their applicability
• Have an insight into the process of critical appraisal as recommended by CASP for Randomised Controlled Trials
• Begin interpreting statistics
• Experience critically appraising a journal article as part of a group discussion

HCPC Standards 2.5, 3.3; GMC Framework Domain 2, 3, 6, 9; NMC Code 6.1, 6.2, 9.4, 19.2, 22.3;
GPhC Standards 4, 5, 8, 9; IHM Code Ope, Pro; SfH Code 2.4, 3.6, 6.4, 6.6

Qualitative research can be tough to appraise and you may have preconceptions about its value – but with mixed methodologies on the rise, now is the time to diversify your critical appraisal skills. And as always, this is an exercise anyone can pick up.

This session is aimed at those with no prior experience of critical appraisal but would be a good refresher for those out of practice or new to qualitative research.

By the end of the session participants will be able to:

• Define what critical appraisal is and its purpose
• Identify and appreciate differences between qualitative and quantitative research
• Locate and engage with tools to critique research
• Understand qualitative research methodologies
• Appraise a qualitative research paper

HCPC Standards 2.5, 3.3; GMC Framework Domain 2, 3, 6, 9; NMC Code 6.1, 6.2, 9.4, 19.2, 22.3;
GPhC Standards 4, 5, 8, 9; IHM Code Ope, Pro; SfH Code 2.4, 3.6, 6.4, 6.6

Accurate management of your references can save time during your assignment, as well as allowing you to organise your reading, and with a reference management tool this becomes an easier and more intuitive task. In this session we cover the reasons you may wish to use reference management applications, provide examples of these, and showcase the freely available Mendeley tool that you can use here.

• Introducing the ideas of reference management
• Be aware of plagiarism issues
• An introduction to a recommended reference management tool

HCPC Standards 3.3, 3.4 9.1, 9.2; GMC Framework Domains 2, 3, 5, 9;
NMC Code 10.3, 20.2, 20.8, 21.4; GPhC Standards 6, 8, 9; IHM Code Respon, Hones, Prof, Integ;
SfH Code 1.2, 6.2, 6.6

This session will introduce you to the basics of preparing your piece of work for publication. It aims to provide a set of tools and principles with which to approach publishing your piece of work, as well as aiming to increase your awareness of the areas of academic writing you need to focus on and improve.

By the end of this session, participants will:

• Understand what 'writing for publication' means
• Have explored the places that writing can be published
• Think about what they could write, and why it could be published

HCPC Standards 2.5, 3.3, 5.1, 5.2; GMC Framework Domains 2, 3, 5, 6, 9;
NMC Code 4.2, 5.2, 9.2, 10.4, 10.6, 21.4; GPhC Standards 7, 9; IHM Code Integ;
SfH Code 3.6, 4.3, 4.4, 5.1, 5.2, 6.4