Be better equipped to make choices
about new medicines
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?
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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?
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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.