Education
Training courses and workshops delivered by Centre faculty and staff
Health Economic Evaluation and Coverage Decision Making
- Centre teaching faculty: Stirling Bryan, Craig Mitton
- This 2-day course offers the opportunity to learn about economic evaluation, its methods and applications.
- The sessions move from rationale and theoretical foundations to analytic methods and decision-making frameworks.
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Mentored Training: Systematic Reviews in Health Care ( Application Deadline Extended to 15 January 2012)
- Centre teaching faculty: Stirling Bryan, Penny Brasher, Mimi Doyle-Waters, Mahyar Etminan, Mark FitzGerald, Michael Schulzer
- This is the first year the Centre has offered a mentored training course on systematic reviews and meta-analysis.
- The course provides participants with a supportive environment to develop and complete their own systematic reviews.
- Participants will attend the Centre the first Tuesday of every month from February to July 2012 for formal training.
- During the intervening periods participants may work on their reviews and receive online and distant support from faculty members.
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Workshop Announcement: Priority Setting and Resource Allocation in Health Care
Online Workshop
5 Weeks: February 6, 2012 - March 11, 2012
Workshop Goals
This workshop will introduce principles and methods related to priority setting and resource allocation in health care; participants will learn how to apply these methods within real-world constraints through a combination of online activities and presentations.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of the workshop, participants will be able to:
• Discuss economic and ethical principles underlying health care resource allocation decision making, and compare these principles with an ‘evidence-based medicine’ approach
• Outline commonly used approaches to priority setting by health care decision makers both within Canada and elsewhere
• Describe practical steps for resource allocation priority setting, including generating -and applying decision making criteria
• Understand how economic evaluation can be used alongside of other types of evidence to inform real world health care priority setting
• Draw out practical insight on key concepts and methods through an understanding of case studies and real world examples
• Discuss individual and organizational success factors related to improving priority setting and resource allocation practices
• Outline a process for resource allocation in a health care organization
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Sponsored by Pfizer Presented with C2E2
Understanding Statistics in Medicine Workshops
- Centre teaching faculty: Penny Brasher
- A series of four day-long workshops designed for health care professionals to help them interpret the statistical results presented in the medical literature with more confidence.
- The four modules were: Basic Statistical Concepts, Randomized Trials, Observational Studies, Meta-analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials.
Health Economic Evaluation and Coverage Decision Making
- Centre teaching faculty: Stirling Bryan, Craig Mitton
- This 3-day course was run in conjunction with the faculty from the Collaboration for Outcomes Research at UBC and the Centre for Health Evaluations & Outcomes Science (Drs Carlo Marra and Larry Lynd).
- This was the first running of the course and the feedback was highly positive and so the plan is to run it again in 2011, with more advanced courses to follow.
UBC School of Population & Public Health courses taught by Centre faculty and staff
UBC Sauder Business School courses taught by Centre faculty and staff
EMBA 598: Health Care Priority Setting
- Centre teaching faculty: Craig Mitton (course director), Stirling Bryan
Simon Fraser University School of Communication courses taught by Centre faculty and staff
Statistics Workshops for VCH Research Institute
Workshop 1: Confidence Intervals
- Centre teaching faculty: Lisa Kuramoto
- This workshop is the first in a three-part series on statistical inference delivered with the VCHRI Research Education Program.
- Its purpose is to teach clinicians and researchers how to understand published research results when reported in terms of confidence intervals.
Workshop 2: Hypothesis Testing
- Centre teaching faculty: Lisa Kuramoto
- This workshop is the second in a three-part series on statistical inference delivered with the VCHRI Research Education Program.
- Its purpose is to teach clinicians and researchers how to make and understand decisions based on hypothesis testing and how to understand published research results when reported in terms of p values.
Healthy Reviews: Best practices for conducting and commissioning literature reviews
- Commissioned workshop for the BC Ministry of Health Services
- Centre teaching faculty: Mimi Doyle-Waters, Stirling Bryan
