Oct 18 2022, 12:00pm – 1:00pm
Virtual

Join us for an informative session on health care evaluation to learn how to use evaluation in your clinical program and units. Evaluations enable health care management to assess the quality and value of their programs, which leads to better decisions that improve health care services and result in better outcomes for patient and clients.

This workshop is part of our VCHRI Research Training Series. This series is designed to support the acquisition of advanced skills, techniques and knowledge, and lead to enhanced practices in the conduct of research.

Learning objectives 

By the end of this session, you will be able to:

  • Define evaluation
  • Differentiate among evaluation, quality improvement, auditing, monitoring and research
  • Identify situations where evaluations can be useful
  • List the steps in an evaluation
  • Describe some common evaluation approaches
  • Identify sources of high-quality information to learn more about evaluation
About the speaker
Dr. Beth Snow is a credentialed evaluator and the vice president of the Canadian Evaluation Society, the professional society for evaluators in Canada. Her work focuses on bridging the gap between research and evaluation evidence and health services delivery, with a strong interest in equity. She has conducted evaluations in a range of health care settings, including public health, acute care and long-term care. Dr. Snow also teaches program planning and evaluation at UBC and SFU, and statistics at the Justice Institute of British Columbia.

Registrants will receive information on joining the virtual event two days prior to the event date.