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Mission & Vision:                                                                                                                 

Mission: To improve Health Care quality by appropriate decisions made through appropriate selection of the best evidence available best current applied by competent Health Care Professionals for the right patients and illnesses. 

Vision: To develop an evidence-based practice among all the Health Care Professionals working in SGH Group through continuing professional development programs in an academic environment that encourages life long learning, and caring for out patients and society.

Objectives:

1.       To formulate a working group for leading and coordinating the implementation of EBM Practice among SGH Health Care Professionals.

2.       To establish a program for training all health care professionals for this new approach (Training is focused more on both searching & reading skills)

3.       To find ways and resources of easy access to the best evidence available worldwide.

4.       To share actively with other international evidence based groups in their activities related to research and Meta-analysis.

5.       To announce our SGH Group an evidence-based practice group by 2009.

6.       To collaborate with other local and regional EBM Groups to exchange ideas and affect changes.

7.       To work with others for locally adapting the international EBM Guidelines for the most common diseases encountered in daily practice.

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Members:

	Member Name	Function
1	Prof. Samir Mossa	Family Medicine Chairman
2	Dr. Hesham Omar	Pediatrics Co-Director
3	Dr. Ayman Afifi	Family Medicine Coordinator
4	Dr. Ayman Emam	Neurologist Member
5	Dr. Ahmad Mahmoud	Cardiologist Member
6	Dr. Medhat Elnazer	Physiotherapist Member
7	Dr. Moustafa Marzouk	General Surgeon Member
8	Dr. Kahlid Batterjee	Orthopedic Surgeon
9	Dr. Azza AbdulMajeed	Family Physician Member
10	Dr. Hesahm Shams	Clinical Pathologist Member
11	Dr. Ayman Esmat	Pulmonologist Member

EBM Infrastructure:

1.       A separate email & forum within our website for exchanging EBM news between our members.

2.       Subscription for clinical evidence & Cochrane collaborations with its free availability for all on their clinical menu within the clinic time of the computer

3.       Big Auditorium for major symposia and conference which accommodates more than 400 attendees at the same time. This is besides many small rooms suitable for the interactive workshops.

4.       Regular weekly intra-departmental meeting for most of the hospitals departments.

5.       We have extended Academic Affairs activities that support the scientific activity of any department and offers training for multiple outsider target health care professionals.

6.       Our series of SGNA Institutes (Saudi German Institute for Nursing & Allied Health Sciences & BMC (Batterjee Medical Colleges) which are adopting the student-centered approach in learning to create our own staff who will be easily shifted toward being a life long learner.

7.       We have also a unique SGH-Academy which targets the CPD for all our staff starting from the workers & Receptionist up to Nurses, physicians, Academic People & heads of different departments.

8.       Editing SGH Medical journal every month where in it’s every edition, there is of 1-2 EB article &1-2 educational article plus a lot of clinical trials.

9.       Regular monthly meeting of EBM club to update its members with hot & updated issues related.

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Achievements:

1.       Hosting conference, discussing the evidence-based pediatrics, EB Rheumatology, EB Urology, EB Psychiatry & EB nursing in which many papers regarding the concept and the Pediatric Practice.

2.       Establishing an online library for clinical evidence & Cochrane collaborations with their updated best evidence.

3.       Inviting many experts in Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM) nationally and internationally like Prof. Guyatt from Canada through Teleconference Systems with marvelous talks about EBM.

4.       Establishing many critical reading workshops for physicians and nurses that are about 100 trained out of these workshops.

5.       Conducting an online 2 days workshop for search for Evidence one long day workshop for EB Physiotherapy

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Future Plans:

1.       Strengthening our collaboration with local and international EBM groups.

2.       Share actively in Cochrane Collaboration activities.

3.       Establishing our Research Center.

4.       Establishing the Journal club Sessions weekly in various medical disciplines.

5.       Continuing the critical reading session until covering all the professionals within the group.

6.       Introducing EBL (Evidence-Based Learning) in the undergraduate curriculum and postgraduate curriculum in Batterjee Medical College.

7.       Establishing an award for the true best physician utilizing evidence frequently in his/her clinical decision-making.

8.       Coming up with clinical pathways and guidelines based on evidence for the most common diseases and illnesses encountered in daily practice.

9.       Establishing an EBM membership for all the health care professionals working in SGH Group and announce it as a sign of competency and Excellency in medical practice.

10.   Widen more our EBM Library.

11.   To start some EBM outreach activities in collaboration with other Groups like Madina & Taif Working Groups

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