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Finding Evidence — Recognising Hype Finding Evidence — Recognising Hype

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Be better equipped to make choices
about new medicines

The FERH keygraphic - the top of someone's head

Finding Evidence – Recognising Hype is a new online program for general practitioners that tackles some of the major barriers to evidence-based prescribing. It's designed to improve skills and confidence in assessing new medicines.

Q. A 58-year-old woman comes to you with information from the internet about a new treatment for smoking cessation: 

  • What do you do next?
  • How do you involve her in choosing the best treatment?

Q. A 50-year-old man hears about new trial results of an established medicine and wants to know if the treatment may prevent him from having a stroke:

  • How confident are you at explaining clinical trial evidence to your patients?

What the program offers

  • Six hours of interactive learning with case-based activities
  • Skills in asking questions about new drugs and connecting them to research evidence
  • Use of high quality resources and tools for evidence-based prescribing
  • Understanding of the limited knowledge about new drugs
  • Effective ways to communicate the risks and benefits of treatment options to patients
  • Skills in ‘reading’ clinical trial research efficiently and critically
  • A critical look at the role of promotional materials in prescribing

Earn professional development points for the 2011-2013 triennium

Accredited with the RACGP-QI&CPD Program for 40 Category 1 points. Activity No: 752540

Accredited with the ACRRM PDP for 6 PDP Core Points. Activity No: OEACR-9007-NPSL

Accredited as a Group 2 activity for 12 credit points for pharmacists. Accreditation number: CX110011. Please use this accreditation number to self-record your completion of this activity.

Endorsed by APEC on behalf of Royal College of Nursing, Australia for 12 x Continuing Nurse Education points. APEC number 061110344.

What you will learn

At the end of the program you should be able to:

  • formulate questions to ask about new medicines
  • know where to find reliable information about new medicines
  • understand the limitations of safety information and surrogate efficacy data for new medicines
  • rapidly interpret the results of randomised controlled trials
  • discuss with patients the risks and benefits of treatment options, including new medicines
  • identify quality consumer information, including tools and resources for decision-making about new medicines
  • feel more confident responding to patients’ questions about new medicines
  • know how promotion can fall short as an information source
  • feel more confident in making a deliberate choice about your exposure to promotion
  • use a checklist to work out the place in therapy of a new medicine.

Visit the NPS Online Learning Site for the complete list of learning objectives for
Finding Evidence – Recognising Hype.

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Date published: 2009-11-23 00:00:00

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