The principles of evidence-based practice (EBP, a.k.a. evidence-based medicine [EBM]) are an important component of the pharmaceutical care process. Clinical pharmacists regularly incorporate these principles into their thought processes in order to make evidence-informed therapeutic decisions with their patients.

EBP is a core rotation in the BC Pharmacy Practice Residency Program. During this one-week rotation, the resident will use a case-based approach to further develop their understanding of pharmacoepidemiologic concepts and further enhance their evidence evaluation and interpretation skills in the assessment of randomized controlled trials (RCTs), observational studies, and systematic reviews with or without meta-analyses. Residents will also have an opportunity to further develop their literature search skills and will be exposed to current areas of controversy within EBP.

This rotation will provide residents with a foundation of evidence evaluation and interpretation skills, which they can build on during their residency rotations and activities.

Travel to EBM week should take place on “work time” so Island Health Residents should be travelling on the morning of the 20th of July. The other programs are aware that residents who are outside of the lower mainland will be travelling on the morning of the 20th and can’t be there until later in the day.

The first session “Pharmacy Impacts on Planetary Health - Academic Session” starts at 10 am. It might be possible to participate in this session if you are on the 7 am ferry. The “real” EBM sessions do not start until the afternoon “Introduction to Biostatistics” at 1 pm. This is why the accommodation booking begins July 20th.

If you are on the 0700 ferry, it will arrive in Vancouver about 8:35 am. It takes about 1 to 1.5 hrs to drive to the UBC campus from the ferry, depending on traffic.

If you arrive in time to attend any of the earlier sessions please do so.