| Project Title | Adapting Clinical Evidence Appraisal Tools for Doctor of Pharmacy Students |
| Principal Investigator | Ricky Turgeon |
| Faculty | Pharmacy |
| Funding Year | 2021 |
| Project Summary | New information about medications is released at a rapid rate. To remain up-to-date, pharmacists and other healthcare professionals must read the primary literature and evaluate it for relevance, quality and applicability to their patients. The Entry-to-Practice Doctor of Pharmacy program at the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences offers a comprehensive series of courses to train Doctor of Pharmacy students in evidence appraisal, which is a skill that they use and refine throughout their professional careers. As part of these courses, Doctor of Pharmacy students are tasked with appraisal various clinical studies; however, there is presently no singular standard resource or framework within this program to use in providing evidence appraisal education to Doctor of Pharmacy students. From 2012-2016, I developed and refined a set of “critical appraisal tools” aimed at practicing pharmacists and other healthcare professionals in BC, available at https://nerdcat.org/. These tools provide a framework for evaluating clinical studies for generalizability, validity, and clinical importance, along with key questions, illustrative examples from real clinical studies, as well as references to key supporting literature. These existing appraisal tools could be readily adapted for use as a standard educational resource for the UBC Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences and other faculties. The goal of this project is to update and enhance the appraisal tools from https://nerdcat.org/, as well as adapt them for Doctor of Pharmacy students, and expand accessibility and visibility by migrating these tools onto the UBC Wiki. I propose to use the funding support from the OER Rapid Innovation Grant for salary support for a Doctor of Pharmacy student from the UBC Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences to assist in updating, enhancing, adapting and migrating the critical appraisal tools for (1) randomized controlled trials and (2) systematic reviews/meta-analyses from https://nerdcat.org/, which can then be integrated into all courses within the UBC Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences that incorporate evidence appraisal. |
| Grant type | Rapid Innovation |
| Funded Amount | $1,997.00 |
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