ADA, Forsyth

CHICAGO, Illinois--After feedback from classes of students in 2009 and 2010, the American Dental Association’s Center for Evidence-Based Dentistry and the Forsyth Institute’s Center for Evidence-Based Dentistry, have announced an ADA/Forsyth EBD training course for 2011.

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Scheduled for Sept. 19-23 at the home of the Forsyth Institute in Cambridge, Mass., the intensive, five-day training course in evidence-based principles and tools is a collaboration between the ADA and the Forsyth Institute Centers for EBD. The course links the initiatives of the ADA Center for EBD with the Forsyth Institute’s history of EBD and scientific research.

Focus of EBD coursework
Participants will be taught skills to understand, appraise, and implement new dental treatment and diagnostic options into their practice, curriculum or research. Taking an interactive, problem and solution-based approach, EBD coursework focuses on human clinical trials, addressing quantitative and qualitative outcomes, risk calculation, diagnosis, and systematic reviews.

Participants will be challenged to:

* Formulate clinical questions
* Search for evidence
* Practice critical reading and appraisal
* Implement EBD into practice
* Navigate the ADA EBD website and Critical Summaries of Systematic Reviews

Who should attend
The hands-on learning environment is an opportunity for the many different disciplines of dentistry to collaborate on evidence-based solutions in their work. Previous attendees who have benefitted from the course include private and public health practitioners, educators, researchers, and dentists working in industry. Class size is limited to 30 qualified students on a first-come, first-served basis. Interested U.S. and international candidates should submit applications by Aug. 1, 2011. Candidates must fill out a questionnaire and submit current curriculum vitae. The course, which is $2,500, is open to ADA-members and nonmembers. ADA members will receive a 20% discount.

More information about the course is available at www.ada.org/forsythcourse.aspx.

Upon completion of the course, attendees receive continuing education credits from the ADA and a certificate in EBD from the Forsyth Institute.

Faculty
The distinguished faculty includes Dr. Richard Niederman, DMD, MA, director, Center for Evidence-Based Dentistry at the Forsyth Institute and Derek Richards, BDS, director, Centre for Evidence-Based Dentistry at Oxford University, UK.

For more information, go to www.forsyth.org, ebd.ada.org/, and www.ada.org.

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