The Research Chair will support and promote the EBHC culture by focusing on the projects below. These may be classified into three interrelated basic themes which may in one way or another help achieve the above objectives and give information to those in need of it at the right time.
1. Conduct original research focusing on measuring the outcomes of the EBHC activities in association with other parties concerned with research in the faculty or the community.
2. Carry out refined or secondary research dealing with the results of original research and make them accessible to health practitioners, such as systematic reviews, which are the most powerful type of evidence.
3. Draw up (or adapt for local use) clinical practice guidelines about health problems and the most common diseases through the relevant systematic reviews, and do research to assess the effectiveness of, and health practitioners’ compliance with such guidelines, anticipate any obstacles and its impact on raising the health standard.
4. Introduce cooperative programs of study of EBHC research methods leading to Master’s or PhD degrees in association with renowned universities worldwide.
5. Undertake other research on EBHC, such as decision analysis, cost, etc.
2. Education and Training
1. Faculty training: promoting this concept among them and training them in practicing its different steps and using and adding to information resources. This includes their membership of a relevant research network, helping them undertake systematic reviews or provide readily available information sources.
2. Basic education: make the skills involved in EBHC an integral part of undergraduate and postgraduate curricula of the Faculty of Medicine and different training programs in the country by developing the current curricula at King Saud University and support other universities’ faculties of medicine and allied medical sciences to integrate these curricula into their plans of study. That may include the introduction to related diploma or master’s programs.
3. Continuing Medical Education: continue organizing intensive Gulf workshops (basic and advanced) organized by the faculty in conjunction with GCC Ministers of Health Executive Office which have been highly successful, in addition to one-day training courses concerned which promoting this concept on a large scale by focusing on a particular discipline (such as reliance on evidence in the areas of surgery, gynaecology and obstetrics, etc.) or a specific topic, such as reliance on evidence in the diagnosis and treatment of hypertension, diabetes, osteoporosis, asthma, etc. This also includes, for example, organizing extensive, long-term training courses making understanding and practice easier on a day or a half day release monthly instead of a whole week release, arranging other distance learning training courses (online) as well as support groups for those who completed the intensive and short training courses.
4. Introduce workshops and training courses for the students enrolled in postgraduate programs in the principles and concepts of EBHC in association which Medical Education Centre/Postgraduate Centre.
3. Develop Information Resources:
Provide the opportunity to benefit from printed information resources through a mini-library, databases on the Internet, advanced software for pocket computers in English, set up and regularly update brief and simple databases in Arabic. This gives all members of the health care team and patients access to the best evidence to use it in clinical decisions, in addition to the latest relevant alerting systems. The latter may be carried out through a regular newsletter or a special website for the Research Chair providing these resources for its visitors.
DIAGRAM OF THE PROPOSED PROJECTS
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DIAGRAM OF THE PROPOSED PROJECTS |
