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Dr Gordon Guyatt and Dr Fahad Al-Ghimlas

KUWAIT: ?A dream come true? is how Dr Fahad Al-Ghimlas, the chairman of the first Kuwait evidence-based clinical practice workshop described the event as he inaugurated it. Dr Al-Ghimlas, who is also a consultant in respiratory medicine and director of fitness and rehab center at Dasman Diabetes Institute, declared open? the workshop conducted in collaboration with McMaster University (Canada) as well as Kuwait Institute for Medical Specialization (KIMS). The workshop is part of the activities of Dasman Institute to improve the level of patients? care. He told the Kuwait Times that this will help the doctors acquire new critical appraisal skills, and treat patients in a better fashion.

He also informed that another event next week will focus on teaching the clinicians to improve their way of delivering information to their juniors and their patients, and will be held in cooperation with Harvard University.
Dr Al-Ghimlas said Dasman Institute focuses on teaching healthcare workers because ?we believe the network of professionals should work hand in hand to improve the health care system and deliver better medical care to our valued patients.?

He added that it was important to focus on other health care workers including allied health professionals, pharmacists, nurses and others ?just as we focus on educating our fellow physicians.? Meanwhile Dr Gordon Guyatt from McMaster University said ?what we are here to do is to train the residents, who are doctors in training, in what we call evidence-based medicine.? What EBM does is train the doctor to be able to read the medical literature, to be able to read the original research studies, so they are up to date with the best evidence and can apply it in their patient care.?

He said, ?We have a number of tutors at the workshop who take the rounds with the residents and deal with issues of therapy including? how to give the best therapy, reach best diagnosis and how to predict what is going to happen in the future? and to use the medical literature to do that.? He said the idea is if they understand how to use the medical literature, they can stay up to date and deliver the best care to their patients. When asked if this program will only be for doctors, or will also focus on other healthcare professionals, he said, ?We hope that it ultimately applies across all professions.?

He said, ?In my university, it was a very important part of the nursing program, and the physiotherapy programs.? On his part, KIMS Secretary General Dr Ibrahim Abbas Hadi said this is the first local workshop for the Kuwait Board Residency Program. He said, ?We currently have 25 residency training programs and there are a total of 935 residents enrolled in our program.? He said there is no course that teaches our residents evidence based practice, and this is currently a very important issue in medicine. He said, ?Our residents are learning how to become good physicians, but since they should also learn how to become good clinical investigators, we decided to run workshops for our doctors.

For this purpose, we studied various capacities and communicated with our program directors through KIMS, and they gave us a list of doctors, and we hope that over a period of one year, all our resident doctors will be able to benefit from our endeavours.? Dr Hadi thanked Health Minister Dr Ali Al-Obaid, and Undersecretary Dr Khalid Al-Sahlawi for their continued support for these workshops, and said he was confident that KIMS will evolve into an excellent future with regard to medical education. The workshop will continue until Thursday.

By Abdellatif Sharaa, Staff Writer

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