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Evidence in Practice Live

Thursday, June 9

2:30 PM-4:00 PM

0.15 CEUs

PTJ PTJ Part-Time Job  brings its popular series to annual conference. When patients need your help, you need information fast. Find out how to efficiently locate and use the evidence that exists in the literature. Chuck Ciccone, PT, PhD, editor for the Evidence in Practice (EiP) series, and members of the EiP team conduct live demonstrations of online searching and discuss the potential impact for the clinical decision-making process. Find out how to frame your clinical questions effectively, how to deal with various levels of evidence, and how to integrate critical thinking about evidence into your practice. Upon completion of this course, you'll be able to:

1) Describe how to identify evidence through various search methods.

2) Demonstrate how to locate evidence.

3) Discuss some fundamental "rules" for applying evidence to individual patients.

4) Practice principles used in critical thinking about evidence.

Journal Central: Top Ten Strategies for Author Success

Saturday, June 11

1:00 PM-4:00 PM

0.30 CEUs

What are the top 10 strategies you can use to dramatically improve your chances of publication? PTJ editors, editorial board members, and manuscript manuscript, a handwritten work as distinguished from printing. The oldest manuscripts, those found in Egyptian tombs, were written on papyrus; the earliest dates from c.3500 B.C.  reviewers field your questions and share their own experiences as authors. Acting Editor in Chief Alan Jette, PT, PhD, FAPTA FAPTA Fellows of the American Physical Therapy Association , leads the discussion. Upon completion of this course, you'll be able to:

1) Differentiate among the types of manuscripts published in PTJ and the ways in which your work might fit in to them.

2) Apply some basic strategies for increasing the likelihood of publication in PTJ and peer-reviewed journals peer-reviewed journal Refereed journal Academia A professional journal that only publishes articles subjected to a rigorous peer validity review process. Cf Throwaway journal.  in general.

3) Anticipate what reviewers are (and are not) looking for Looking for

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 in a manuscript.

4) Avoid fatal flaws that could stop your manuscript dead in its tracks.

5) Use reviewer re·view·er  
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 feedback to your best advantage.

6) Discuss how to prepare manuscripts for maximal contribution to the evidence base.
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Date:May 1, 2005
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