Overview

CLEAR is:

• two days in duration
• conducted for up to 32 participants
• taught by a faculty of four to five instructors
• a combination of lectures and small group teaching
• not assessed (attendance required for certification).

CLEAR for junior doctors and Trainees

By completing this course, you will be able to:

• ask answerable clinical questions
• find and critically appraise literature efficiently
• understand study methodologies
• extract numerical information from literature
• apply evidence to surgical practice
• develop sound foundations for conducting research
• incorporate current research into practice
• identify areas where good evidence is lacking and future research necessary.

CLEAR for junior doctors and Trainees

• guide to clinical epidemiology
• framing clinical questions
• randomised controlled trial
• non-randomised and uncontrolled studies
• evidence based surgery
• diagnostic and screening tests
• statistical significance
• searching the medical literature
• decision analysis and cost effectiveness studies.

This course includes content that aligns to the following surgical competencies:

• scholarship and teaching
• judgement and decision making
• health advocacy

For an outline of the two day CLEAR course for junior doctors and Trainees please view the CLEAR provider course program (PDF 48.6KB).