ADA, Forsyth team up to offer EBD course

Boston鈥擳he ADA Center for Evidence-Based Dentistry and Forsyth Institute have teamed up to offer a five-day interactive evidence-based dentistry course Oct. 19-23 at the Forsyth Institute.

“The ADA/Forsyth EBD Course” will link the ADA Center for EBD’s strong evidence-based dentistry initiatives with the Forsyth Institute’s scientific research and was prompted by requests from ADA members seeking a formal EBD course.

Course instructors include Dr. Richard Niederman, director, Center for Evidence-Based Dentistry at the Forsyth Institute, and Dr. Derek Richards, director, Center for Evidence-based Dentistry at Oxford University.

“Derek and I have been teaching this course at Oxford for 10 years to clinicians, academics and business groups from Europe, Asia, Africa, South America,” Dr. Niederman said. “With the implementation of ebd.ada.org, and CODA’s interest in evidence-based dentistry we thought the time was right to bring this course to the U.S.”

This course will admit up to 30 students and includes a pre-assignment and multiple hands-on activities throughout the week. Participation is open to dentists, dental team members, educators and researchers including practitioners involved in Practice Based Research Networks.

The curriculum includes:

• formulating clinical questions;
• searching for evidence;
• critical reading and appraisal;
• implementation;
• navigating the ADA’s EBD Web site and finding critical summaries of Systematic Reviews.

The coursework focuses on human clinical trials addressing quantitative and qualitative outcomes, risk calculation, diagnosis and systematic reviews.

“[This course] will greatly improve my teaching, research and clinical practice. I hope to use it to improve our dental faculty and my residents’ research and critical appraisal of the literature,” said Dr. Richard Bebermeyer, an associate professor at the University of Texas Dental Branch at Houston who took the course in Oxford.

Tuition for the course is $2,500 and all ADA members receive a 20 percent discount as well as continuing education credit from the ADA and a certificate of EBD from the Forsyth Institute. All participants are responsible for travel and lodging and expenses.

The deadline for applications is Sept. 1. To apply, all candidates must fill out the questionnaire online and submit a current CV. Accepted applications will be notified on a rolling basis.
For more information or to apply for the course visit聽www.ada.org or contact Julie Frantsve-Hawley, director of the ADA Center for EBD, by e-mail at frantsvej@ada.org or by calling the ADA’s toll free number, Ext. 2519.