The sixth annual "Evidence-based Medicine Teachers Networking Session" will be held at the Family Medicine Forum. This year it will take place on Friday November 28th at 15:30-17:00. The meeting will be held in the HILTON HOTEL – Osgoode Ballroom East – 3rd floor/3e étage   (item #2384 N in the program). The conference organizers have gone to great lengths to try to ensure that our meeting does not conflict with other EBM sessions.

This meeting has been very well attended in the past 5 years and has led to lots of animated discussion about the issues facing those of us who teach EBM. It has also been a forum for the sharing of resources and teaching tools between universities.

Agenda items:

1. An evaluation of evidence-based content in CME activities and an RCT comparing trip database and infoclinique (Dr. Michel Labrecque, Laval)
2. An OSCE for measuring skills of EBM /information mastery (Dr. Fred Tudiver, East Tennessee State Univ)
3. An update on the CIHR funded study to validate the Information Impact Assessment Method (Dr. Roland Grad, McGill)
4. New complex care forms in an open source (free) electronic medical record that incorporate evidence –based care prompts at the point of care (Dr. Cameron Ross, UBC)
5. Canadian Academic Detailing Collaboration (who we are, demo of clinical signif calculator, forming a national EBM speakers bureau) (Dr. Michael Allen, Dalhousie)
6. A seminar on “selling sickness” about the pharmaceutical industry (Dr. David Chan and Michelle Howard, McMaster)
7. An introduction to EBM for IMGs (Dr. Inge Schabort and Michelle Howard)
8. Updates from RxFiles (a new EBM overview chart, academic detailing, new website and new comparison book) (Brent Jensen) 
9. Announcements of other EBM sessions being held at FMF
10. Issues facing EBM teachers, barriers to teaching EBM (Dr. Elmslie’s suggestion at the 2007 meeting, Ottawa U)