Faculty from National University of Health Sciences (NUHS) will be holding an evidence based practice (EBP) workshop for chiropractic physicians (DCs) working in the Veterans Health Administration system (VHA).

The workshop is funded by the VHA. Additionally, a research project will be conducted simultaneously with the workshop to measure how training in EBP affects the knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors of VHA chiropractic physicians.

This two-day workshop is scheduled to take place Wednesday, July 20, and Thursday, July 21, at the Northern Illinois University Naperville Conference Center.

At the seminar, DCs will learn about the history and principles of EBP as well as how to construct a searchable clinical question, find and access sources of information, discover different online databases, search the literature, appraise the literature, apply the evidence to patient care, and develop a journal club.

Twenty-one chiropractors from VHA facilities across the country have agreed to attend the seminar and will be invited to participate in assessments that are part of the research project component.

"We'll be assessing the DCs immediately prior to the seminar and again at the end of day two. They'll be assessed six months from completion of seminar and then again at 12 months after completion," says Dr. Gregory Cramer, principal investigator for the research project and dean of research at NUHS.

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