Incorporating evidence-based principles in medical training. Sharing experience with McMaster.

This article was migrated. The article was marked as recommended. This workshop was the second activity of the collaboration between the McMaster University, Botucatu Medical School- São Paulo State University (UNESP) and Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais - PUC Minas that took place in Botucatu, Brazil between March 27th to 28th 2017. Its prime purpose was to share with the Brazilian professors and students how to include evidence-based concepts in their daily teaching activities. The participants were involved and guided in discussions on how to explore evidence-based techniques to improve their understanding and their willingness to include new teaching strategies in the future. A final evaluation survey completed by the participants indicated that they were highly satisfied with the workshop experience and that they gained an enhancement of knowledge about evidence-based medicine. Participants had an increase in their self-confidence to implementevidence-based concepts in their future lecture programs.