Resource Center - Evidence-Based Practice
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Evidence-based practice has emerged as a critical issue that all practice professions in health care must address with considerable energy. The items included in this Web site present documents and educational materials that will be useful to practitioners, faculty members, students and those engaged in research of various kinds.

In keeping with the mission of AOTF, the most prominently featured materials here are designed to assist educational programs with the challenge of integrating the concepts of evidence-based practice across the curriculum, in both the academic and clinical phases of the educational process.

In July 2004, AOTA and AOTF sponsored the International Conference on Evidence-based Occupational Therapy which was attended by occupational therapists from 13 countries. The conference was supported by a grant from the US Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), and the final report may be reviewed. Part of the conference was devoted to examining elements of occupational therapy education that require strengthening if the profession is to move ahead rapidly towards successful use of evidence as the basis of therapeutic judgments and decision-making. Invitations were issued to educators around the world to share their syllabi and other teaching materials in order to provide assistance to other educators facing similar challenges.

The materials represented here have been provided by occupational therapy educators from a variety of countries, some more highly developed than others. The range of cultures represented here and the variety of health-care challenges faced by these educator-practitioners are great, and you most surely will find programs that will be of enormous value to you in your own educational mission.

You are cordially invited to submit your own teaching materials to AOTF for inclusion on this page. To do so, please contact Helene Ross . Thank you!

  Final Report of the International Conference on Evidence-based Occupational Therapy

  Joint Position Statement on Evidence-Based Occupational Therapy (Endorsed by the 2004 Online Representative Assembly)

Educational Materials:

The educational materials posted here have been made available through the generosity of several occupational therapy educators, each of whom has developed extensive expertise in using the methods of evidence-based practice and in teaching this subject. At the close of the AOTA-AOTF International Conference on Evidence-based Practice in July 2004, we requested educational materials suitable for use across a wide variety of occupational therapy educational programs. While additional materials are “in the works”, and we expect to be able to share them through this site in the near future, the current listings provide an excellent starting point for educators in all countries, in all types of educational and clinical facilities.

Please note that these offerings range from a single presentation that provides an introduction to the topic to various types of curriculum designs, some of which incorporate evidence-based practice, clinical reasoning, and research methods throughout the entire curriculum. Each is offered in its entirety, so you can select the segments or modules which may best be integrated into your curriculum.

Please download and use these materials freely. Please, also, try to provide some feedback regarding how useful the materials have been in your program. You may send that feedback to Helene Ross at AOTF.

Educational Materials from Boston University - Sargent College:
 Guiding Questions
 Evidence-Based Practice Syllabus
 Expanded CAT Guidelines
 EBP I Outline
 EBP II Outline
 EBP III Outline

Educational Materials from University of Kansas Medical Center:
 Research Handbook for OCTH 725 The Research Process and OCTH 790 Research Practicum

Educational Materials from McMaster University:
 Evidence-based Practice and the Realities of Everyday Life
 Reflective Practice: Critical Appraisal

Educational Materials from OT Seeker:
 Evidence-based practice in Occupational Therapy: An Introduction

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