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 consultants

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
• run a successful journal club
• effectively supervise Trainee research.

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.

CLEAR for consultants:

• 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.
• running journal clubs
• supervising research projects.

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).

For an outline of the two day CLEAR consultant course please view the CLEAR consultants course program (PDF 16.68KB).