UBC CPD Presents:

The Therapeutics Initiative: Bringing Best Evidence to Clinicians 2021 Virtual Event

REGISTRATION OPEN!

Keynote Speaker: Julia Belluz, host of “Show Me the Evidence”, a Canadian journalist and senior health correspondent for Vox, examines the science behind major headlines in health and medicine. Julia has covered topics including the anti-vaccine movement, shed light on major American health problems, and debunked popular pseudoscience media figures. See more of her work at: https://www.vox.com/authors/julia-belluz. She’ll present "Lessons from the trenches of evidence-based health journalism (How clinicians deal with patients that read medical journalism.)"

The course also features practical, evidence-based prescribing advice from TI Faculty and guests:

Dr. Jamie Falk “A Deep Dive into SGLT2 inhibitors: What comes up to the surface for individual patients with diabetes?"
Dr. Aaron Tejani "Common Prescribing Cascades & Is there a dose response for efficacy and harm (Assessing the evidence for commonly prescribed medicines.)"
Dr. Josh Levin "Exercise prescriptions: evidence and clinical applications"
Dr. Tom Perry "How well do you know the drugs you prescribe?” (Listening and observing thoughtfully can protect your patients from pointless adverse effects.)

Target audience: family physicians, nurse practitioners, nurses, pharmacists, allied health professionals, specialists, residents, and students; patients, caregivers, policy-makers are also welcome

“Fabulous event-timely topics, dynamic presentations, good question periods, agenda kept flowing on time.”

Details and registration at: https://ubccpd.ca/learn/learning-activities/course?eventtemplate=143

Accredited: 3.75 Mainpro+/MOC Section 1 credits

Costs ($CDN + GST): Delegate $125.00, Resident $55.00, Student $30.00